The conquest of Mexico : 500 years of reinventions / edited by Peter B. Villella and Pablo García Loaeza ; preface by Matthew Restall.
| Other author/creator | Villella, Peter B., editor. |
| Other author/creator | García Loaeza, Pablo, 1972- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Restall, Matthew, 1964- writer of preface. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022] |
| Description | xiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Preface: The Time Loop of Mexico's Conquests / Matthew Restall -- Origins Reconsidered : Disputing the Conquest in Bourbon Mexico, 1740-1820 / Peter B. Villella -- Revisionist Histories of the Conquest after Independence / Kevin Terraciano -- The 1861-1867 Conquest of Mexico / Pablo García Loaeza -- "Born of the Conquest" : Porfirian Depictions of the Spanish Invasion of Mexico / Christina Bueno -- Between Nation and Self : Oral History and Narrating the Conquest of Mexico Today / Kathleen A. Myers -- The Devil in a Rich Country : The Sixteenth-Century English Reception of the Conquest of Mexico / Barbara Fuchs -- How to Stage the History of the New World : Translating the Conquest into Opera in Enlightenment Italy and France / Aaron Alejandro Olivas -- Echoes of Greatness : Reinventions of the Conquest in Romantic-Era Spain, 1830-1850 / Rodrigo Escribano Roca -- Rewrites, Temporalities, Reinventions : The Uses of the Past in Latin American Modernist Literature / Valeria Añón -- Prescott's Legacy : The Conquest of Mexico Viewed from the United States / Amber Brian -- Conclusion : The Eternal Conquest / Peter B. Villella. |
| Abstract | "In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, the editors and contributors explore how politicians, writers, artists, activists, and others have reimagined the Conquest in order to influence and manipulate perceptions within a wide variety of controversies and debates, including those touching on indigeneity, nationalism, imperialism, modernity, and multiculturalism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Conquest of Mexico. Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022] 0806191538 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021055888 |
| ISBN | 9780806190372 hardcover |
| ISBN | 080619037X hardcover |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | F1230 .C287 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |