From the Book - Regular Print
Introduction: The Dream of the Conquistador and a Book of Desire and Destruction / David Carrasco xi --
Preface by Bernal Diaz del Castillo xxviii --
Expedition under Cordova 1 --
Expedition under Grijalva 14 --
Expedition under Cortes Begins: Intrigues in Cuba 17 --
Cortes Finds an Interpreter 28 --
Cortes Attacks the Ceiba Tree 40 --
Spaniards Viewed as Gods 64 --
Cortes Destroys the Ships 84 --
Spaniards' Plea for Peace and Alliance 98 --
Ambassadors from Montezuma Arrive 110 --
Baptizing Tlaxcalan Women 119 --
Massacre at Cholula 131 --
Arrival in the Splendid City of Tenochtitlan 156 --
Montezuma in Captivity 184 --
Games with Montezuma 193 --
Cortes Struggles with Narvaez 209 --
Spanish Massacre of the Dancers 211 --
Spanish Defeat and the Noche Triste 225 --
Return to the Valley and the Alliance with Texcoco 239 --
Siege Begins from Texcoco 263 --
Indian Allies and Spanish Disasters 277 --
Dismal Drums and Human Sacrifices 287 --
Fall of Mexico and the Surrender of Guatemoc 296 --
City as a Wasteland: Taking Women 303 --
Torturing Guatemoc for Treasure: Malicious Graffiti 311 --
Pedro de Alvarado Attacks in Guatemala 329 --
Turmoil in Chiapas 342 --
Arrival of the Twelve Franciscans 354 --
Mexico City Becomes a Roman Circus 362 --
Bernal Diaz del Castillo: Soldier, Eyewitness, Polemicist / Rolena Adorno 389 --
Cortes and the Sacred Ceiba: A Maya Axis Mundi / David Carrasco 399 --
Colonial Sexuality: Of Women, Men, and Mestizaje / Karen Vieira Powers 405 --
La Malinche as Palimpsest II / Sandra Messinger Cypess 418 --
Exaggerations of Human Sacrifice / David Carrasco 439 --
Tenochtitlan as a Political Capital and World Symbol / David Carrasco 448 --
Human Sacrifice/Debt Payments from the Aztec Point of View / David Carrasco 458 --
Spaniards as Gods: The Return of Quetzalcoatl / David Carrasco 466.