Title: A much over-hyped disappointment
Review: I bought and read this book hoping to learn many totally new perspectives and details about the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. The editor, Miguel Leon-Portilla, packaged a small amount of content from the Aztec's original accounts of the conquests and has seemed to try to package it for sale. His introductions of all the Aztec accounts are so saucy and sensational that the reader loses a sense of historical objectivity from the Aztecs. The accounts themselves are mainly name-calling of the Spaniards. Sometimes the Aztec accounts of the Spanish Conquestors as "Barbarians" seems to be the only repeated chime of cultural relativity offered by the slow-reading book. This fellow absolutely spoiled the book by trying to pad the lack of content from a small collection of Aztec narratives. What a let-down.
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