Yucatan Before and After the Conquest by William Gates, Friar Diego De Landa

Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

William Gates, Friar Diego De Landa

174 pages first pub 1566 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1562, de Landa conducted an 'Auto de f ' in Man where in addition to 5000 'idols, ' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. This one act deprived future generations of a huge body of Mayan literature. He culturally impoverished the descendents of ...

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