The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by Miguel Leon-Portilla, Lysander Kemp

The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Miguel Leon-Portilla, Lysander Kemp

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nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel Leon-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of ind...

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