Letters from Mexico

by Hernan Cortes

Overview

Hernan Cortes's Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781638231974
Publisher:	Beta Nu Publishing
Publication date:	07/23/2012
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

Editorial Reviews

One of the most fascinating Machiavellian documents to come out of the Renaissance. —Guardian

Carlos Fuentes

The first reliable edition of the most important Spanish text . . . draws on Pagden's own profound knowledge of Mesoamerican cultures. —Sixteenth Century Journal

Helen Nader

The definitive edition [of the letters] in any language. —English Historical Review

C. R. Boxer