¿Quién conquistó México? - Federico Navarrete

Editorial: Debate/ 2019/ ISBN: 9786073184670/ 181 paginas/ español

"The Spaniards did not conquer Mexico-Tenochtitlan: there were tens of thousands of indigenous people, moved by their own interests and headed by leaders who, systematically, led Cortes to fulfill his own ends ... with all success. In this essay - as accurate as it is revolutionary and acute - the historian Federico Navarrete does a vibrant and seductive review of what happened exactly 500 years ago: he dismantles the powerful myths created throughout the centuries, explains the complexity of the colonization process, and offers dozens of arguments and reasons that allow us to answer, finally, a question that still hurts our identity: who conquered Mexico? In answering it, it is understood that the simplistic vision of the "Spanish conquest" emerged a … (cont.)