{"product_id":"beyond-corts-and-montezuma-the-conquest-of-mexico-revisited-9781646426652","title":"Beyond Cort?s and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico Revisited","description":"\u003ci\u003eBeyond Cort?s and Montezuma\u003c\/i\u003e examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A diverse group of scholars from Europe, Mexico, and the US with varied methodological backgrounds-linguistics, history, art history, and cultural studies-query the \"conquest,\" or rather \u003ci\u003econquista\u003c\/i\u003e, of Mexico through a series of case studies that interrogate how historians, especially in Europe, Mexico, and the US, understand and interact with this concept. They consider the language used to encapsulate the event in Nahuatl documents from the colonial period, how the Spanish veterans led the transition to settlement in taking land for themselves, and the legacy of the \u003ci\u003econquista\u003c\/i\u003e in discrimination against Tlaxcallans in modern Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBeyond Cort?s and Montezuma\u003c\/i\u003e is a compilation of nuanced reflections on the language, narratives, and memories of the \u003ci\u003econquista\u003c\/i\u003e that balances the crimes of Spanish colonialism and asymmetries of power that existed within early New Spain with the abilities of Native peoples to resist, negotiate, and survive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVitus Huber\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of early modern history at the University of Fribourg. He is the author of two books on the coercive encounter between the so-called Old and New Worlds. A recipient of several research grants, he was a senior researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Munich, Bern, and Geneva as well as a visiting fellow at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, CSIC, in Madrid; Colegio de M?xico in Mexico City; John Carter Brown Library in Providence; ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris; Universit? degli Studi di Padova; Harvard University; and the University of Oxford. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn F. Schwaller\u003c\/b\u003e is emeritus professor of history at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a research associate in history and Latin American studies at the University of Kansas. He is author and editor of several books as well as numerous articles on the secular clergy in early colonial Mexico, the history of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and the Nahua and Nahuatl language. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Americas\u003c\/i\u003e and former director of the Academy of American Franciscan History. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Ethnohistory in 2022 and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity from State University of New York in 2020. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Colorado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51175265501458,"sku":"9781646426652","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d65a9c5-b3da-4c0f-855a-4135bec5d4ee.jpg?v=1744289828","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beyond-corts-and-montezuma-the-conquest-of-mexico-revisited-9781646426652","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}