Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico (Mesoamerican Worlds Series)

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Invasion and Transformation examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political, social, cultural, and spiritual life in Mexico right through the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. In particular, contributors believe the ways by which the Conquest itself was once remembered, both in its immediate aftermath and in later centuries.

Was Moteuczoma in point of fact as weak as history portrayed him? As Susan D. Gillespie as an alternative suggests in “Blaming Moteuczoma,” the representation of Moteuczoma as a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat can also be understood as a product of indigenous resistance and accommodation following the imposition of Spanish colonialism. Chapters address the quite a lot of roles (real and imagined) of Moteuczoma, Cortés, and Malinche in the fall of the Aztecs; the representation of history in colonial art; and the complex cultural transformations that in fact took place.

Including full-color reproductions of seventeenth-century paintings of the Conquest, Invasion and Transformation will appeal to scholars and students of Latin American history and anthropology, art history, colonial literature, and transatlantic studies. Contributors include Rebecca P. Brienen, Louise M. Burkhart, Ximena Chávez Balderas, Constance Cortez, Viviana Diáz Balsera, Martha Few, Susan D. Gillespie, Margaret A. Jackson, Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Matthew Restall, Michael Schreffler.


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