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   1962. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico ( Spanish title: Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista; lit. "Vision of the Defeated: Indigenous relations of the conquest") is a book by Mexican historian Miguel León-Portilla, translating selections of Nahuatl -language accounts of the Spanish ...

   • Author: Miguel León Portilla
   • Original title: Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista

   • Publish Year: 1959
   • Publication date: 1959

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   Nov 15, 2006 · by Miguel Leon-Portilla (Author), Lysander Kemp (Translator), J. Jorge Klor de Alva (Foreword) 4.6 589 ratings. See all formats and editions. For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors.

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   • Author: Miguel León Portilla

   • Price: $18.81
   • Brand: Beacon Press

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   Aug 3, 2011 · The broken spears : the Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico : León Portilla, Miguel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.

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   What books did Miguel León-Portilla read?

   • Read it now. Miguel León-Portilla, The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico; Native Meso-American Spirituality; and In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature—Pre-Columbian to the Present. León-Portilla studied at Loyola University and National Autonomous University.

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   What is broken spears about?

   • Summary Broken Spears can be loosely divided into three parts. The first section gives a primer on Aztec society before the arrival of the Europeans in 1519. In his lengthy Introduction, Miguel León-Portilla traces the stages of cultural development in ancient Mexico from 20,000 BCE up to the peak of the Aztec empire in the 16th century AD.

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   • We then see a brief summary of these events from the perspective of another Indigenous People, the Tlateloco. Finally, the third section of Broken Spears deals with the aftermath of the war, featuring mournful elegiac poetry written by the Aztecs after the fall of Tenochtitlan.

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   Is broken spears a good book?

   • Broken Spears has enjoyed substantial popularity in the Spanish-speaking world and beyond. Scholars have particularly praised León-Portilla’s introductory essay on the Aztec empire, as well as the volume’s translations.

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   While the story had historically been shaped by the victors for almost 450 years, Broken Spears reorients the narrative to the perspective of the vanquished. After a thorough introductory essay, the volume’s editor, Mexican anthropologist and historian Miguel León-Portilla, steps aside to let the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico speak for ...

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   Miguel León Portilla. Beacon Press, 1992 - History - 196 pages. In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec...

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    Nov 30, 2014 · 4.05. 3,569 ratings317 reviews. Until 1959, when this book was published for the first time, the only organized testimony about the Conquest was the victorious chronicle of the Spaniards themselves. Miguel León-Portilla had the incomparable success of organizing texts translated from Nahuatl by Ángel María Garibay Kintana to give us the The ...

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    In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the...