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Historia de los indios de la Nueva España .

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Con este texto abarcamos a la vez un relato primigenio de la instalación hispánica en Mesoamérica y uno de los primeros intentos bien organizados por comprender, valorar y describir la civilización de los vencidos. Historia y etnografía a un tiempo y de una voz. (...) En realidad, detrás de las dos caras de la obra, o mejor dicho en la intimidad de sus fundamentos, tropezamos deslumbrados con un tremendo e inaudito proyecto político-espiritual que sueña con favorecer la venida del reino de mil años anunciado por las profecías del Apocalipsis, y que se propone nada menos que acelerar la llegada del fin de los tiempos y ayudar a redactar el prólogo del Juicio Final.Fascinante e inquieta trayectoria en la historia de las ideas, plasmada en un texto ágil, de sabrosa escritura, donde asoma y se va abriendo camino el rostro indio del Nuevo Mundo.

418 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1541

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The history of the evangelization of indigenous people of Mexico and Central America to Catholicism. Describes how the Aztec Empire fell to the conquistadores from Spain, and the beautiful new land discovered. His writings are key for understanding history and ethnography of the Nahuas in the post-conquest. He tells of what he considered the ten plagues afflicting New Spain, like the biblical Ten Plagues: smallpox was the first, the second, those who died in the conquest; the third, famine following the fall of Tenochtitlan; the fourth, labor bosses and tribute collectors; the fifth, tax and tribute obligations; the sixth, forced labor in gold mines; seventh, building Mexico City; the eighth, enslavement; the ninth, the labor far from homes; and the tenth plague, the factionalism of Spanish conquistadores.
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