Invasion and Transformation
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico (Mesoamerican Worlds Series)
Contributors: Rebecca Parker Brienen (Editor); Margaret A. Jackson (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: December 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780870818868
Subjects: American history: pre-Columbian period, BCE to c 1500; History; History - General History; History: World; Mexico; History - Renaissance; Latin America - Mexico; Aztecs; First contact with Europeans; Social life and customs
Description: "Invasion and Transformation examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political, social, cultural, and religious life in Mexico during the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. In particular, contributors consider the ways in which the Conquest itself was remembered, both in its immediate aftermath and in later centuries." "Was Moteuczoma really as weak as history portrayed him? As Susan D. Gillespie instead suggests in "Blaming Moteuczoma," his representation as a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat can be understood as a product of indigenous "resistance and accommodation following the imposition of Spanish colonialism." Chapters address the various roles - real and imagined - of Moteuczoma, Cortes, and Malinche in the fall of the Aztecs; the representation of history in colonial art; and the complex cultural transformations that actually 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."--BOOK JACKET.