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Author Restall, Matthew, 1964- author.

Title Maya conquistador / Matthew Restall
Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents pt. 1. Contexts & conquests. Conquests. Recontextualizing calamity -- pt. 2. The Maya accounts of the conquest of Yucatan. The insinuated conquest: the Chontal account from Acalan-Tixchel. Conquest as chronology: the Annals of Oxkutzcab. The community view: the Calkini account. Maya conquistadors: the Pech accounts from Chicxulub and Yaxkukul. The cruel cycle: the accounts from the books of Chilam Balam. A hybrid perspective: The accounts by Gaspar Antonio Chi. The politics of conquest: the letters of the Batabob to the King. Conquest as negotiation: the perspective of petitions
Summary Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance and society, and the Spanish colonization of the Yucatan was part of an ongoing pattern of adaptation and survival for centuries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index
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Subject Mayas -- History -- Sources
Conquerors -- Mexico -- History -- Sources
Conquerors
Mayas
Erlebnisbericht
Eroberung
Maya's.
Kolonialisme.
Mayas -- Histoire -- Sources.
15.85 history of America.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Latin America.
SUBJECT Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084574
Subject Mexico
Yucatán
Mexique -- Histoire -- 1519-1540 (Conquête)
Maya.
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book