book chapter

The true history of the conquest of New Spain

Printed for the Hakluyt societyLondonPublished In 1910 • Pages: xvi, 152

By: Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, García, Genaro, Maudslay, Alfred Percival.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This portion of an account of Cortez’s conquest of the Aztec Empire by one of his soldiers covers events from the arrival of the expedition in the Tlaxcalan city of Cholula to the extraction of tribute and defiant building of a Christian altar in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (Mexico) where the emperor Montezuma was held captive. It includes observations on the cultures of the rival Nahua groups.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Settlement patterns
Chief executive
External relations
Instigation of war
Missions
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Aztecs
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2017
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Middle America and the Caribbean
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Central Mexico
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
book chapter
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Soldier
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
James Leary ; 1958
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1519-1522
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1519-1520
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Puebla and State of Mexico, Mexico
NotesAdditional notes
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo , one of its conquerors ; edited and published in Mexico by Genaro García ; Translated into English, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay
Uniform Title: Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
'From the only exact copy made of the original manuscript'
Omitted from the file: pages 152-343
'Bibliography of Mexico': v. 1, p. [309]-368
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
09030461
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Aztecs