Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance and society, and the Spanish colonization of the Yucatan was part of an ongoing pattern of adaptation and survival for centuries.
- ISBN10 0807055069
- ISBN13 9780807055069
- Publish Date 3 December 2005 (first published 30 August 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 September 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Beacon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English