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Thomas, Hugh Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico
New York Simon & Schuster Feb-94 671705180 Hardcover
British historian Thomas's epic, spellbinding narrative history of conquistador Hernan Cortes's destruction of Montezuma's Aztec empire is a stunning meditation on Christian Spain's cataclysmic encounter with native American civilization. Thomas ( The Spanish Civil War ) plunges us into the cultural milieu of the Aztecs' militarized, collectivist, rigidly stratified society, one free of beggars or crime, but where human sacrifice was a sacred rite. He portrays Aztec emperor Montezuma as a tragic figure, an inflexible, fatalistic man who, in 1519, became Cortes's hostage, agreeing to stay with the Castilians until the truth were known about the killing of one of Cortes's lieutenants. Under the influence of his captors, Montezuma lost power and the respect of his people, who ultimately stoned him at a public appearance in 1520. Montezuma, we are told, was mesmerized by Cortes to the end, developing a 'kind of affection . . . which victims of kidnappings often have for their captors. Although not above murder, torture and massacres, Cortes considered himself a devout Christian and believed he was performing a service by offering the Aztecs a new spiritual world. Illustrations not seen by PW . Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Digging into thousands of pages of legal testimony given in the 1520s by participants in Cortes's expedition against the Mexico of ancient Mesoamerica, Thomas revisits the Spanish invasion of the Aztec Empire. The result is a richer account of the personalities, events, and social setting of this momentous episode than currently exists in accessible form. The complex genealogical interweaving of Castilian and Mexican royal families, the intricacies of battle strategy and tactics, the labyrinthine political machinations, and the brutal imposition of external standards of behavior and belief--all are described in a gripping narrative by Thomas, a British academic. His sterling achievement is to illustrate the complex historical foundation of modern Mexico. Although the book is intended for a general audience, extensive chapter-by-chapter endnotes and an annotated bibliography of major sources reveal the depth of the author's scholarship. No library should be without this important contribution to Latin American history. - William S. Dancey, Ohio State Univ., Columbus Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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