Readings on Moctezuma

[John F. Schwaller]

Date: 8 Apr 2009
From: "Michael Smith" <Michael.E.Smith.2 at asu.edu>

I haven't seen the new Moctezuma exhibit, but readers who want to read 
some of the recent "revisionist" scholarship on the Mexica king can look 
at some of the following works:

Burkhart, Louise M.
2008 Meeting the Enemy: Moteuczoma and Cortés, Herod and the Magi. In 
Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the 
Conquest of Mexico, edited by Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A. 
Jackson, pp. 11-24. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
1992 "Aztec" Auguries and Memories of the Conquest of Mexico. 
Renaissance Studies 6:287-305.

Gillespie, Susan D.
2008 Blaming Moteuczoma: Anthropomorphizing the Aztec Conquest. In 
Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the 
Conquest of Mexico, edited by Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A. 
Jackson, pp. 25-56. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Smith, Michael E.
2005 Motecuhzoma II. In Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, edited 
by William H. McNeill, pp. 1302-1303, vol. 3. Berkshire Publishing, 
Great Barrington, MA. Available at:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/1-CompleteSet/MES-05-MoctEncyc.pdf

Townsend, Camilla
2003 Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico. 
American Historical Review 108:659-687.

Townsend, Camilla
2003 No One Said it was Quetzalcoatl: Listening to the Indians in the 
Conquest of Mexico. History Compass 1:1-14.

Mike

Dr. Michael E. Smith
Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/
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