Victors and Vanquished
Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica EmpireSecond Edition ©2018
The new edition of Victors and Vanquished highlights recent advances in the field of Mesoamerican ethnohistory that allow for a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the fall of the Mexica empire. A revised introduction is followed by eight chronological sections that illuminate the m...
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The new edition of Victors and Vanquished highlights recent advances in the field of Mesoamerican ethnohistory that allow for a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the fall of the Mexica empire. A revised introduction is followed by eight chronological sections that illuminate the major events and personalities in this powerful historical episode and reveal the changing attitudes toward European expansionism. Within each section, the authors have added a number of new text and visual sources designed to enrich and reframe the story of the conflict. Readers of the revised edition will also find updated section introductions and headnotes, and study questions for students. A list of the principal individuals mentioned in the texts, a glossary of Indigenous language terms, and a new bibliography as a guide to further research are also included.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Maps and Illustrations
PART ONE
Introduction: States in Conflict
A Long Tradition: The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica
Tenochtitlan: The Foundation of Heaven
Mexica Society
Renaissance Conquistadors
The Spanish Sources
Indigenous Historical Traditions
PART TWO: The Documents
1. Omens
1. Juan de Tovar, Mexican Eagle and Cactus, from History of the Arrival of Indians to Populate Mexico
2. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
3. Fray Martín de Jesús de la Coruña, from the Chronicles of Michoacán
4. Diego Durán, from The History of the Indies of New Spain
2. Preparations
5. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
6. Hernando Cortés, Letters to Charles V
7. Town Council of Vera Cruz, Letter to Charles V
3 Encounters
8. Hernando Cortés, Letters to Charles V
9. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
10. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
4. The March Inland: Tlaxcala and Cholula
11. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
12. Andrés de Tapia, A Spanish View of the Cholula Massacre
13. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
14. Tlaxcalan Noblemen Greet Cortés and Massacre at Cholula, from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala
5. Tenochtitlan
15. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
16. Moctezuma and Cortés Meet in Tenochtitlan, from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala
17. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
6. Things Fall Apart: Toxcatl and the Noche triste
18. Francisco López de Gómara, from History of the Conquest of Mexico
19. Juan de Tovar, Dance of the Nobles, from History of the Arrival of Indians to Populate Mexico
20. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
21. "Here Motecuhzoma Died and the Marques Arrived" from the Codex Aubin
22. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
23. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
7. The Siege and Fall of Tenochtitlan
24. New Sun in Tlaxcala and Joint Spanish-Nahua Assault at Copolco, from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala
25. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, from the Account of the Conquest of New Spain
26. Fray Martín de Jesús de la Coruña, from the Chronicles of Michoacán
27. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
28. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
29. Nahua Poetry, from Cantares Mexicanos
8. Aftermath: Tradition and Transformation
30. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
31. From the Proof of the Faithful Service of Doña Marina During the Conquest of New Spain
32. Three Folios from the Codex Mendoza
33. The Shape of the Land, from the Relaciónes geográficas and the Mapa Uppsula
34. Town Council of Huejotzingo, Letter to King Phillip II
35. From the Huejotzingo Census (Matrícula de Huexotzinco)
36. Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin, The Death of Cuauhtémoc, from The Codex Chimalpahin
37. From the Title of Acalan-Tixel
APPENDICES
Chronology of the Conquest of Tenochtitlan (1485–1584)
Questions for Consideration
Biographical Notes
Glossary of Terms in Nahuatl and other Indigenous Languages
Selected Bibliography
Index
Authors
Stuart B. Schwartz
Stuart B. Schwatz (Ph. D., Columbia University) is the George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University. He specializes on the colonial history of Latin America. Author or editor of nineteen books, his All Can be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World won three prizes of the American Historical Association, the first time that any book was so honored. Long interested in ethnohistory and in cultural interactions, he was co-editor of the Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the Americas. South America (2 vols.) and was editor of Implicit Understandings: The Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era. He is presently at work on a history of the union and separation of the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the seventeenth century.
Tatiana Seijas
Tatiana Seijas (Ph.D., Yale University) is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. Her first monograph Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians won the Berkshire Conference Book Prize. She is also co-author of Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics: The Money That Made Mexico and the United States. Her current monograph project is tentatively titled "First Routes: Indigenous Trade and Travel in Early North America."
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