A Hero for the Americas: The Legend of Gonzalo Guerrero
Robert Calder
A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucatàn Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jerónimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hernàn Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as legend has it, embraced the Mayan way of life and skillfully led the opposition to the Spanish take-over of the Yucatàn. Reviled in 16th-century Spain as an apostate and a traitor, Guerrero is today remembered all over the Yucatàn with statues and images, and as the symbolic father of millions of Mexican mestizos. But like Robin Hood and King Arthur, Guerrero's story has become embellished by legend and myth. The product of fifteen years of research by a Governor General's Award winner, A Hero for the Americas is the first comprehensive investigation of this controversial figure.
年:
2017
出版社:
University of Regina Press
语言:
english
页:
208
ISBN 10:
0889775095
ISBN 13:
9780889775091
文件:
PDF, 2.20 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017
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