Cortes and the Aztec Conquest
/ Author Irwin R. Blacker / Editors Horizon Magazine / Consultant Gordon Eckholm
- New York : American Heritage Publishing , c1965.
- 153 p. : ; ill. ; 26 cm.
- A Cassell Caravel Book .
This story of Cortez involves not only the confrontation of two colorful cultures (with a representative of Europe's grandest monarch meeting the mighty Montezuma) but also the violent death of a great empire. Only recently has the work of archaeologists and scholars in Mexico been combined with traditional Spanish and Indian sources to give a detailed picture of those blood-thirsty native conquerors who, in turn, were conquered by Cortes.