Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited
Beyond Cortés and Montezuma examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period.
 
A diverse group of scholars from Europe, Mexico, and the US with varied methodological backgrounds—linguistics, history, art history, and cultural studies—query the “conquest,” or rather conquista, of Mexico through a series of case studies that interrogate how historians, especially in Europe, Mexico, and the US, understand and interact with this concept. They consider the language used to encapsulate the event in Nahuatl documents from the colonial period, how the Spanish veterans led the transition to settlement in taking land for themselves, and the legacy of the conquista in discrimination against Tlaxcallans in modern Mexico.
 
Beyond Cortés and Montezuma is a compilation of nuanced reflections on the language, narratives, and memories of the conquista that balances the crimes of Spanish colonialism and asymmetries of power that existed within early New Spain with the abilities of Native peoples to resist, negotiate, and survive.
 
 
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Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited
Beyond Cortés and Montezuma examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period.
 
A diverse group of scholars from Europe, Mexico, and the US with varied methodological backgrounds—linguistics, history, art history, and cultural studies—query the “conquest,” or rather conquista, of Mexico through a series of case studies that interrogate how historians, especially in Europe, Mexico, and the US, understand and interact with this concept. They consider the language used to encapsulate the event in Nahuatl documents from the colonial period, how the Spanish veterans led the transition to settlement in taking land for themselves, and the legacy of the conquista in discrimination against Tlaxcallans in modern Mexico.
 
Beyond Cortés and Montezuma is a compilation of nuanced reflections on the language, narratives, and memories of the conquista that balances the crimes of Spanish colonialism and asymmetries of power that existed within early New Spain with the abilities of Native peoples to resist, negotiate, and survive.
 
 
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Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited

Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited

Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited

Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited

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Beyond Cortés and Montezuma examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period.
 
A diverse group of scholars from Europe, Mexico, and the US with varied methodological backgrounds—linguistics, history, art history, and cultural studies—query the “conquest,” or rather conquista, of Mexico through a series of case studies that interrogate how historians, especially in Europe, Mexico, and the US, understand and interact with this concept. They consider the language used to encapsulate the event in Nahuatl documents from the colonial period, how the Spanish veterans led the transition to settlement in taking land for themselves, and the legacy of the conquista in discrimination against Tlaxcallans in modern Mexico.
 
Beyond Cortés and Montezuma is a compilation of nuanced reflections on the language, narratives, and memories of the conquista that balances the crimes of Spanish colonialism and asymmetries of power that existed within early New Spain with the abilities of Native peoples to resist, negotiate, and survive.
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646426669
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 02/14/2025
Series: IMS Culture and Society
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 340
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Vitus Huber is professor of early modern history at the University of Fribourg. He is the author of two books on the coercive encounter between the so-called Old and New Worlds. A recipient of several research grants, he was a senior researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Munich, Bern, and Geneva as well as a visiting fellow at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, CSIC, in Madrid; Colegio de México in Mexico City; John Carter Brown Library in Providence; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; Università degli Studi di Padova; Harvard University; and the University of Oxford.
 
John F. Schwaller is emeritus professor of history at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a research associate in history and Latin American studies at the University of Kansas. He is author and editor of several books as well as numerous articles on the secular clergy in early colonial Mexico, the history of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and the Nahua and Nahuatl language. He is editor of The Americas and former director of the Academy of American Franciscan History. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Ethnohistory in 2022 and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity from State University of New York in 2020.
 

Table of Contents

Contents:

Foreword- Kevin Terraciano vii
Preface- Vitus Huber and John F. Schwaller xi
Introduction
Beyond Cortés and Moteuczoma: Revisiting the Conquista of Mexico- Vitus Huber 3
Part I: Semantics and Effects
1. The Language of “Conquest” in Colonial Nahuatl Manuscripts- Stephanie Wood 17
2. “Perpetuating Lands”: The Crucial Transition from War to Colonial Settlement in the Conquista of Mexico- Vitus Huber 45
3. The Conquista of Mexico Today: Hyperactive Memory, National Identity, and Symbolic Violence- Justyna Olko 69
Part II: Narratives and Memories
4. The Last Journey of Cuauhtemoc: Models for the Anales de Tlatelolco’s Version of Cuauhtemoc’s Death- Julia Madajczak 99
5. Zacarías de Santiago: A Tlaxcalteca Conquistador in the Evolution of Nahua Historical Memories- Robert Haskett 125
6. How to Read Native Accounts of the Conquista of Mexico- María Castañeda de la Paz 161
Part III: Power and Negotiations
7. Moteuczoma’s Surrender of Power: A Critical Proposal- Miguel Pastrana Flores 191
8. The Forty Teteuctin: Nahua Bodies in the Mediterranean- Erika Escutia 215
Part IV: Representations and Iconic Figures
9. Beyond Malinche: Other Native Women in the Conquista- Lori Boornazian Diel 243
10. Between Victor and Vanquished: The Metamorphosis of Moteuczoma in a Painted Biombo- Patrick Hajovsky 272
Epilogue
Conclusions- John F. Schwaller 305
 

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