Maya Conquistador - Softcover

Restall, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807055077 ISBN 13: 9780807055076

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

At last, the Mayas' perspective of the Spanish Conquest! Evocative and poignant. -Susan Schroeder, author of Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco

"Matthew Restall has discovered the lost world and re-awakened the silent voices of Maya conquistadors. Now everyone can read some of the surprising sources he has wrested from neglected archives, which make colonial society vivid and intelligible as never before." -Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Before Columbus and Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years

"Now joining The Broken Spears in importance. . . . Maya Conquistador is provocative and highly recommended. It will undoubtedly alter previous views of the relationship between the Mayas and the Spanish conquerors of the Yucatan." -James C. Harrison, Multicultural Review

About the Author:

Matthew Restall, author of Life and Death in a Maya Community and The Maya World, is associate professor of Colonial Latin American History at Pennsylvania State University and lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807055077
• ISBN 13: 9780807055076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272