Letters from Mexico

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Letters from Mexico is written by Hernán Cortés and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300037244 (ISBN 10) and 9780300037241 (ISBN 13).

Hernán Cortés’s 'Cartas de Relacíon', written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide a account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés’s journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden’s English translation has been prepared from a close examination of the earliest surviving manuscript and of the first printed editions, and he also provides a introduction offering a bold interpretation of the nature of the conquest and Cortes’s involvement in it. J. H. Elliot’s introductory essay explains Cortes’s conflicts with the Crown and with Diego Velazquez, the governor of Cuba.