The history of the Indies of New Spain

Author(s)

• Durán, Diego, d. 1588?
• Heyden, Doris

Bibliographic Information

The history of the Indies of New Spain

by Fray Diego Durán ; translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Doris Heyden

（The civilization of the American Indian series, v. 210）

University of Oklahoma Press, c1994

Other Title

Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y Islas de Tierra Firme

Uniform Title

Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y Islas de Tierra Firme

Note

Translation of: Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y Islas de Tierra Firme

Includes bibliographical references (p. 595-608) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work offers a detailed description of the Aztecs' developing urban system and of the manner in which the Spaniards built upon that system and then altered it to suit their own purpose, the extraction of wealth from New Spain.

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Details

• NCID: BA25314727
• ISBN:
  • 0806126493
• LCCN: 93048624
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: spa
• Place of Publication: Norman
• Pages/Volumes: xxxvi, 642 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F1219.73
  • DC20 : 972/.018
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aztecs -- History
  • LCSH : Aztecs -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : Mexico -- History -- To 1519
  • LCSH : Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00867894