El Hombre Gris (L'homme Gris)

El triunfo español sobre México-Tenochtitlán estuvo condicionado por una serie de factores históricos; entre los más significativos está, sin duda, la alianza de los pueblos de la región tlaxcalteca que, sojuzgados por la hegemonía mexica, buscaron en los conquistadores el apoyo para la lucha por su autonomía. El estudio de Charles Gibson presenta un lúcido análisis de la historia misma del pueblo tlaxcalteca, pueblo que viviera en los años siguientes a la Conquista en 1525.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

Profiles nine important figures in the history of México including the Emperor Montezuma, Hernán Cortés, Benito Juárez, and Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán.