Mexico's Golden Age: The First Half Century

The past two centuries have seen the near universal condemnation of the Spanish, beginning in the Sixteenth century, who forcefully imposed their domination over native peoples across the Americas. Yet, a most unusual circumstance underlies my choice to offer a new perspective of events during that time period in Mexico: the recent appearance of several important documents, written in Náhuatl by the chieftains of Cuernavaca who-after "the conquest"-continued to rule their respective communi...