Chimalpahin's ConquestThis volume presents the story of Hernando Corts's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco Lpez de Gmara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de Mxico was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, La conquista fell into the hands of the seventeenth century Nahua historian Chimalpahin, who took