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Hernan Cortes's Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden's English translation has been prepared from a close examination of the earliest surviving manuscript and of the first printed editions, and he also provides a new introduction offering a bold and innovative interpretation of the nature of the conquest and Cortes's involvement in it. J. H. Elliot's introductory essay explains Cortes's conflicts with the Crown and with Diego Velazquez, the governor of Cuba.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Letters from Mexico
• Author: Anthony Pagden
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640
• EAN: 9780300090949
• ISBN: 0300090943
• ID: 04050076
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Weight: 626 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 125 × 48 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. August 2001

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