Description
Book SynopsisAfter invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony - with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemala's conquistador. This volume shows that the real story of the Spanish invasion was very different.
Trade Review“[In] the second volume in the Latin American Originals series from Pennsylvania State University Press, Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars, . . . Matthew Restall, well known for having laid to rest a number of misconceptions about the wars of conquest in his book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, joins forces with Florine Asselbergs to demolish the generally accepted vision of the conquest of Guatemala. The vivid picture that emerges is a much more complex, prolonged and tragic affair than traditional historiography would have us believe.”
—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement
“This book is a great introduction as well as a scholarly contribution to conquest studies of the Americas.”
—R. A. Santillan Choice
Table of ContentsContents
List of Maps and Figures
Foreword
Preface
1. The Invasions of Guatemala
2. Pedro de Alvarado’s Letters to Hernando Cortés, 1524
3. Other Spanish Accounts
4. Nahua Accounts
5. Maya Accounts
Bibliography
Index
