[Aztlan] British Museum Exhibit on Moctezuma

[Michael Smith]

I haven't seen the new Moctezuma exhibit, but readers who want to read some of the recent "revisionist" scholarship on the Mexica king can look at some of the following works:

Burkhart, Louise M.
2008	Meeting the Enemy: Moteuczoma and Cortés, Herod and the Magi. In Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico, edited by Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A. Jackson, pp. 11-24. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
1992	"Aztec" Auguries and Memories of the Conquest of Mexico. Renaissance Studies 6:287-305.

Gillespie, Susan D.
2008	Blaming Moteuczoma: Anthropomorphizing the Aztec Conquest. In Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico, edited by Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A. Jackson, pp. 25-56. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Smith, Michael E.
2005	Motecuhzoma II. In Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, edited by William H. McNeill, pp. 1302-1303, vol. 3. Berkshire Publishing, Great Barrington, MA.  Available at:
 
http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/1-CompleteSet/MES-05-MoctEncyc.pdf

Townsend, Camilla
2003	Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico. American Historical Review 108:659-687.

Townsend, Camilla
2003	No One Said ot was Quetzalcoatl: Listening to the Indians in the Conquest of Mexico. History Compass 1:1-14.

Mike

Dr. Michael E. Smith
Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/