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  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    by Matthew Restall ...
    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghosts - Journeys To Post-Pop

    How David Sylvan, Mark Hollis and Kate Bust reinvented pop music

    by Matthew Restall ...
    Three music-obsessed, suburban London teenagers set out to make their own kind of pop music: after years of struggle, success came to David Sylvian (and Japan) and to Mark Hollis (and Talk Talk); Kate Bush became an overnight star. But when their unique talents brought them international acclaim, they turned their backs on stardom. ‘Just when I think I’m winning’, sang Sylvian on ‘Ghosts’, a 1982 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    Updated Edition

    by Matthew Restall ...
    An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    by Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

    by Matthew Restall ...
    **“Entertaining and unpredictable.… [S]urprising and significant.” —Andrés Reséndez, New York Times Book ReviewA gifted historian presents a definitive book on Columbus—his life, his legacies, and the controversies that outlived him.**Christopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Maya

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Restall, Amara Solari ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas — and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane ...
    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Mesoamerican Voices

    Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala

    Edited by Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, Kevin Terraciano ...
    Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they established was even stranger than their real achievements. This Very Short Introduction deploys the latest ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    by Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Friar and the Maya

    Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan

    by Matthew Restall, Amara Solari, Traci Ardren, John F. Chuchiak IV ...
    The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original manuscript held by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid. This critical and careful reading of the Account is long overdue in Maya studies and will forever change ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • On Elton John

    An Opinionated Guide

    by Matthew Restall ...
    A lively and imaginative exploration of the career and music of the Rocket Man Elton John is not only "still standing," he is a living superlative, the ultimate record-breaking, award-winning survivor of the great era of pop and rock music that he helped to shape during his six decades in the music industry. Yet few of his numerous biographies and song guides take him as a historical subject ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook