'Offers a new interpretation of the conquest by considering perspective of indigenous peoples. Argues that indigenous rulers who allied with Cortâes to pursue their own goals were a significant factor, even though their intentions and understandings differed from those of the Spanish'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Product Description: Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 1993 University of Oklahoma Press