Maya Conquistador by Matthew Restall
Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance and society, and the Spanish colonization of the Yucatan was part of an ongoing pattern of adaptation and survival for centuries.At Pennsylvania State University, Matthew Restall is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study at Princeton, the John Carter Brown Library, the Library of Congress, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he is the president of the American Society for Ethnohistory. On the Mayas, Blacks in Spanish America, and the Spanish Conquest, he has produced twenty volumes and sixty articles and essays. He and his wife, as well as the youngest of his four daughters, live in State College, Pennsylvania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807055076 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807055077 |
| Title | Maya Conquistador |
| Author | Matthew Restall |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Year published | 1999-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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