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When Montezuma Met Cort???s: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History Hardcover - 2018
by Restall, Matthew
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- Title When Montezuma Met Cort???s: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
- Author Restall, Matthew
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Publisher Ecco Pr, New York
- Date 2018-01
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780062427267
- ISBN 9780062427267
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: Mexican
- Cultural Region: Spanish
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
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From the rear cover
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Corts that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas
On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Corts first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Corts's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere.
But is this really what happened? In a departure from the traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Corts uses "the Meeting"--as Restall dubs their first encounter--as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Corts and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Corts's and Montezuma's posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived--leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself.
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- Booklist, 11/01/2017, Page 12
- BookPage, 02/01/2018, Page 0
- Choice, 09/01/2018, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2017, Page 0
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- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 08/01/2017, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 11/13/2017, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 02/02/2018, Page 0