The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Expanded and Updated edition)

by Miguel Leon-Portilla (Editor), J Jorge Klor De Alva (Foreword by), J Jorge Klor De Alva (Designer)

In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors. Read More

In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors. Read Less