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Title:Invasion & Transformation : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico
Author:Rebecca P Brienen & Margaret A Jackson (eds)
ISBN:0870818864 : 9780870818868
Illustrations:8 colour photos, 1 b/w photo, 29 line drawings
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:231
Weight: .504 Kg.
Published:University Press of Colorado - December 2007
List Price: 36.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Mexico: American history: pre-Columbian period; BCE to c15


This book 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', the representation of Moteuczoma 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, Cortés, and Malinche in the fall of the Aztecs; the representation of history in colonial art; and the complex cultural transformations that actually took place.

Part 1 - Remembering the legends:Moteuczoma, Cortés, and Malinche; Part II - The transformation of history: painting the conquest of Mexico; Part III - Effects of invasion: death and conquest; Part IV: Conquest of Mexico paintings, the Kislak collection, library of congress; Index.

"...provides exciting readings of indigenous rationalizations of the history of the Spanish invasion and the colonizers' effort to assert their sense of superiority in their allegiance to Spanish imperial expansion. Together, these essays successfully force the reader to question conventional readings of both Spanish and indigenous conquest narratives." -- Cristián Roa de la Carrera, University of Illinois at Chicago.