Table of Contents

Contents

List of Maps and Figures

Foreword

Preface

1. The Invasions of Guatemala

2. Pedro de Alvarado’s Letters to Hernando Cortés, 1524

3. Other Spanish Accounts

4. Nahua Accounts

5. Maya Accounts

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Matthew Restall is Professor of Latin American History at Penn State and author of eight books on colonial Latin America, including Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Florine G. L. Asselbergs is a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the author of Conquered Conquistadors, a groundbreaking study of the Guatemalan conquest.

Reviews

“[In] the second volume in the Latin American Originals series from Pennsylvania State University Press, Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars, . . . Matthew Restall, well known for having laid to rest a number of misconceptions about the wars of conquest in his book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, joins forces with Florine Asselbergs to demolish the generally accepted vision of the conquest of Guatemala. The vivid picture that emerges is a much more complex, prolonged and tragic affair than traditional historiography would have us believe.”—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement

“This book is a great introduction as well as a scholarly contribution to conquest studies of the Americas.”—R. A. Santillan Choice