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Free Download Danna A. Levin Rojo Ph.D., "Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México "
English | ISBN: 0806144343 | 2014 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Long before the Spanish colonizers established it in 1598, the "Kingdom of Nuevo México" had existed as an imaginary world―and not the one based on European medieval legend so often said to have driven the Spaniards' ambitions in the New World. What the conquistadors sought in the 1500s, it seems, was what the native Mesoamerican Indians who took part in north-going conquest expeditions also sought: a return to the Aztecs' mythic land of origin, Aztlan. Employing long-overlooked historical and anthropological evidence, Danna A. Levin Rojo reveals how ideas these natives held about their own past helped determine where Spanish explorers would go and what they would conquer in the northwest frontier of New Spain―present-day New Mexico and Arizona.