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  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    by Diego de Landa ...
    In "Yucatan Before and After the Conquest," Diego de Landa provides valuable insights into the culture, society, and history of the Maya civilization in the Yucatan region before and after the Spanish conquest. The work is an essential primary source for understanding the pre-Columbian Maya civilization and the early colonial period in the Yucatan.Diego de Landa's account covers various aspects of ... Read more

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  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    by Diego de Landa ...
    In 1562, Friar Diego de Landa conducted an 'Auto de fé' in Maní where in addition to 5000 'idols,' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. The document translated here is his apology, and one of the few remaining contemporary texts which describe pre-conquest Mayan society, science, and art in detail. The translator, William Gates, provides background on de Landa, the decline of the Maya, and what is ... Read more

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  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    by Diego de Landa ...
    Yucatan Before and After the Conquest is one of the most remarkable and controversial accounts of the encounter between the Spanish conquerors and the Maya world.Written by Diego de Landa, the Franciscan friar and later bishop of Yucatán, this work offers a vivid description of the land, customs, religion, calendar, rituals, social organization, and daily life of the Maya people in the sixteenth ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    by Diego de Landa ...
    Relación de las cosas de Yucatán was written by Diego de Landa around 1566, shortly after his return from Yucatán to Spain. In it, de Landa catalogues Mayan words and phrases as well as a small number of Maya hieroglyphs. ... Read more

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  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    by Diego de Landa ...
    Series series Native American
    These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most grievously, and which gave them great pain.So writes Friar Diego de Landa in his Relación De las ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    The Maya

    by Diego de Landa Calderon ...
    Translated by William Gates ...
    A rare firsthand account of Maya life emerges from the same figure responsible for erasing much of it. This translation presents Diego de Landa's defense of his actions in 1562, offering one of the few surviving descriptions of Maya society, ritual practice, scientific knowledge, and artistic traditions before Spanish domination.Framed by William Gates's detailed contextual notes, the text ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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    by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Sadie Whitlock ...
    In "History of the Incas," Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa meticulously chronicles the rise and fall of the Inca Empire, weaving a narrative that combines firsthand observations with extensive historical research. Written during the late 16th century, this work illuminates the complexities of Incan society, governance, and culture, set against the backdrop of Spanish conquests. Sarmiento's distinctive ... Read more

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  • History of the Philippine Islands

    by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Antonio de Morga ...
    In this volume is presented the first installment of Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Events here described cover the years 1493-1603, and the history proper of the islands from 1565. Morga's work is important, as being written by a royal official and a keen observer and participator in affairs. Consequently he touches more on the practical everyday affairs of the islands, ... Read more

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  • Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two

    by Garcilaso de la Vega ...
    Translated by Harold V. Livermore ...
    The two-part classic history of the Incan empire's origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards.Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important ... Read more

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  • The Travels of Mendes Pinto

    by Fernão Mendes Pinto ...
    The immortal work of travel and adventure by the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer, now available in a sparkling English translation.This work by Fernão Mendes Pinto, presented as his incredible-yet-true autobiography, came second only to Marco Polo's work in exciting Europe's imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto ... Read more

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  • History of the Inca Empire

    An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions

    by Father Bernabe Cobo ...
    Translated by Roland Hamilton ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on the history of the kingdom of Peru. The volume includes a general account of the aspect, character, ... Read more

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  • The Spanish Conquest of the Americas

    by Irving Richman ...
    The Spaniard of the fifteenth century is recognizable by well-defined traits: he was primitive, he was proud, he was devout, and he was romantic. His primitiveness we detect in his relish for blood and suffering; his pride in his austerity and exclusiveness; his devoutness in his mystical exaltation of the Church; and his romanticism in his passion for adventure.After printing had spread in Spain, ... Read more

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