Part I: First Landings: Veracruz. Three Veracruces: Staging Conquest and Colonization ; Villa Rica and Antigua de la Veracruz ; Xalapa: State Capital ; Nahua Perspectives from Comunidades in the Sierra Zongolica ; Interview Selections, Part I

Part II: The March Inland: Tlaxcala, Cholula, and Puebla. Crossroads: San Francisco de Ixtacamaxtitlan ; Tlaxcala: Allies, Foes, and Identity Politics ; The Sacred City of Cholula: Destruction and Survival ; Conquests and Continuities: the Valley of Puebla ; The Spanish City: Puebla de Los Angeles ; Interview Selections, Part II

Part III: The Center: Mexico City-Tenochtitlan. Las Colonias and ElEstado de México ; Back to the Center: the Historic Deistrict ; The Retreat Toward Cuernavaca ; Interview Selections, Part III

Part IV: El Otro Lado: Mexicans in the United States. Mexico and the United States of America ; Interview Selections, Part IV

Conclusion.

"The book proposes a visual and cultural history of the legacy of the contact between Spaniards and indigenous societies of Mexico by following the route of Hernán Cortés and by conducting personal interviews with ordinary Mexican people along these territories once crossed by the army of Spaniards"

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