Matthew Restall is Sparks Professor of Latin American History at Penn State and the author of eight books on colonial Latin America, including Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.Florine G. L. Asselbergs is an independent scholar in the Netherlands and the author of Conquered Conquistadors, a groundbreaking study of the Guatemalan conquest.

“[In] the second volume in the Latin American Originals series from Pennsylvania State University Press, Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars, . . . Matthew Restall, well known for having laid to rest a number of misconceptions about the wars of conquest in his book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, joins forces with Florine Asselbergs to demolish the generally accepted vision of the conquest of Guatemala. The vivid picture that emerges is a much more complex, prolonged and tragic affair than traditional historiography would have us believe.”—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement

• ContentsList of Maps and FiguresForewordPreface1.The Invasions of Guatemala2.Pedro de Alvarado’s Letters to Hernando Cortés, 15243.Other Spanish Accounts4.Nahua Accounts5.Maya AccountsBibliographyIndex

Matthew Restall is Sparks Professor of Latin American History at Penn State and the author of eight books on colonial Latin America, including Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.Florine G. L. Asselbergs is an independent scholar in the Netherlands and the author of Conquered Conquistadors, a groundbreaking study of the Guatemalan conquest.

“[In] the second volume in the Latin American Originals series from Pennsylvania State University Press, Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars, . . . Matthew Restall, well known for having laid to rest a number of misconceptions about the wars of conquest in his book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, joins forces with Florine Asselbergs to demolish the generally accepted vision of the conquest of Guatemala. The vivid picture that emerges is a much more complex, prolonged and tragic affair than traditional historiography would have us believe.”—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement

• ContentsList of Maps and FiguresForewordPreface1.The Invasions of Guatemala2.Pedro de Alvarado’s Letters to Hernando Cortés, 15243.Other Spanish Accounts4.Nahua Accounts5.Maya AccountsBibliographyIndex

Matthew Restall is Sparks Professor of Latin American History at Penn State and the author of eight books on colonial Latin America, including Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.Florine G. L. Asselbergs is an independent scholar in the Netherlands and the author of Conquered Conquistadors, a groundbreaking study of the Guatemalan conquest.

“[In] the second volume in the Latin American Originals series from Pennsylvania State University Press, Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars, . . . Matthew Restall, well known for having laid to rest a number of misconceptions about the wars of conquest in his book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, joins forces with Florine Asselbergs to demolish the generally accepted vision of the conquest of Guatemala. The vivid picture that emerges is a much more complex, prolonged and tragic affair than traditional historiography would have us believe.”—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement

• ContentsList of Maps and FiguresForewordPreface1.The Invasions of Guatemala2.Pedro de Alvarado’s Letters to Hernando Cortés, 15243.Other Spanish Accounts4.Nahua Accounts5.Maya AccountsBibliographyIndex