Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0197577660 ISBN13: 9780197577660 Release Date: July 2021 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 336 Pages Weight: 1.15 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2" In November 1519, Hernando Cort s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the Roman alphabet and, unbeknownst to the newcomers, they used it to write detailed histories in their own language of Nahuatl. Until recently, these sources remained obscure, only partially translated, and rarely consulted by scholars. For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the ind