The Broken Spears

The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Ranked #3 in Aztec, Ranked #4 in Mexico Historysee more rankings.

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 Aztec Account of the... more

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