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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
1953
Language
English
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This is the dramatic and complete story of the colonization New Mexico, translated by two noted scholars from documents, some previously published but most of them significantly new, found in the famous Archives of the Indies in Spain. The courageous and able Don Juan de Oñate, son of one of New Mexico's great families, came to the New World soon after the conquest by Cortéz. To this bleak and barren region he brought soldiers and colonists, in...
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Monografías bibliográficas mexicanas volume núm. 12
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[Imprenta de la Secretaria de relaciones exteriores]
Pub. Date
1928
Language
Español
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Publicaciones del Instituto de Historia volume 1a ser., no. 6
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Impr. Aldina
Pub. Date
1948
Language
Español
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Monografías bibliográficas mexicanas volume núm. 9
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[Impr. de la secretaria de relaciones exteriores]
Pub. Date
1927
Language
Español
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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Our familiar images of Mexico's conquest are powerful and enduring - bold and blood-thirsty Spanish conquistadors, nobly savage Aztecs lamenting their broken spears, the triumph and tragedy of Cortes and Moctezuma.
But one story has not been told - and it is one that reshapes our entire vision of the conquest. It is the Maya story of the Spanish creation of a colony in the ancient Maya homeland of Yucatan. Maya Conquistador tells this tale through...