{"product_id":"maya-conquistador-isbn-9780807055076","title":"Maya Conquistador","description":"Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance and society, and the Spanish colonization of the Yucatan was part of an ongoing pattern of adaptation and survival for centuries.At last, the Mayas' perspective of the Spanish Conquest! Evocative and poignant. -Susan Schroeder, author of \u003ci\u003eChimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Matthew Restall has discovered the lost world and re-awakened the silent voices of Maya conquistadors. Now everyone can read some of the surprising sources he has wrested from neglected archives, which make colonial society vivid and intelligible as never before.\" -Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of \u003ci\u003eBefore Columbus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMillennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Now joining \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Spears\u003c\/i\u003e in importance. . . . \u003ci\u003eMaya Conquistador\u003c\/i\u003e is provocative and highly recommended. It will undoubtedly alter previous views of the relationship between the Mayas and the Spanish conquerors of the Yucatan.\" -James C. Harrison, \u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003eMatthew Restall, author of \u003ci\u003eLife and Death in a Maya Community\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Maya World\u003c\/i\u003e, is associate professor of Colonial Latin American History at Pennsylvania State University and lives in State College, Pennsylvania.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301873930469,"sku":"NP9780807055076","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807055076.jpg?v=1767732451","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/maya-conquistador-isbn-9780807055076","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}