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The Real Montezuma: Emperor, Diplomat and Prisoner. Power, Negotiation, and Collapse at the Heart of the Aztec Empire, 1502–1520
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- Nombre de pages189
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-3-565-32660-0
- EAN9783565326600
- Date de parution15/03/2026
- Protection num.pas de protection
- Taille2 Mo
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurEmphaloz Publishing House
Résumé
History remembers Montezuma II as the ruler who surrendered a civilization-a passive emperor paralyzed by superstition, outmaneuvered by a handful of Spanish conquistadors. That portrait is wrong, and this book dismantles it.
Drawing on Nahuatl-language sources, Spanish colonial chronicles, and recent archaeological findings from Tenochtitlan, this narrative history reconstructs the man behind the myth.
Montezuma was one of Mesoamerica's most sophisticated political operators: a ruler who expanded the Triple Alliance's reach through strategic marriages, tribute networks, and calculated military pressure. When Hernán Cortés arrived in 1519, Montezuma did not submit-he negotiated, probed, and maneuvered within a framework of diplomacy his Spanish counterparts never fully understood. This book follows the emperor from his coronation through his extraordinary reign to his final, contested months as a figure caught between two worlds.
It examines how indigenous political logic, imperial overextension, and the catastrophic arrival of European disease combined to produce one of history's most consequential collapses. Montezuma's story is not one of weakness-it is a study in how empires fall when two entirely different systems of power meet without a common language.
Montezuma was one of Mesoamerica's most sophisticated political operators: a ruler who expanded the Triple Alliance's reach through strategic marriages, tribute networks, and calculated military pressure. When Hernán Cortés arrived in 1519, Montezuma did not submit-he negotiated, probed, and maneuvered within a framework of diplomacy his Spanish counterparts never fully understood. This book follows the emperor from his coronation through his extraordinary reign to his final, contested months as a figure caught between two worlds.
It examines how indigenous political logic, imperial overextension, and the catastrophic arrival of European disease combined to produce one of history's most consequential collapses. Montezuma's story is not one of weakness-it is a study in how empires fall when two entirely different systems of power meet without a common language.
