Mexico: A History by Paul Gillingham Groundswell Speaker 2024

Mexico: A History by Paul Gillingham Groundswell Speaker 2024This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolutionIt begins in 1511 with the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucatn. Only ten years later, an army of European adventurers and indigenous rebels seized the island city of Tenochtitln, seat of one of the worlds great empires. It would become Mexico City, and marked the collision of two radically different worlds. Spaniards discovered tomatoes, chocolate

ISBN: 9780008587185 | Extent: 400 pages

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