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The book also includes a chronology that records the history of Mexican and some American migration from the early 16th century, when Moctezuma and Cortes met, to the present. However, the text suppresses the atrocities committed by Moctezuma and his "one-ruler" mode of governing his empire in order to stress the author's overarching argument that "[E]uropean invasion of Mexico was both pernicious and inimical to the political, cultural, and sexual life of America; [and] ancient and real rivalries among the various nations [of Moctezuma's empire] are meant to be forgotten in the face of the new and more threatening force from across the sea" (Messenger 56). At the gates of Tenochtitlan-- Moctezuma trying to appease Cortes with a moon made of silver and a sun of hammered gold--just enough to keep his hot greed glowing. |
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