Real Montezuma: Emperor, Diplomat and Prisoner

History remembers Montezuma II as the ruler who surrendered a civilization-a passive emperor paralyzed by superstition, outmaneuvered by a handful of Spanish conquistadors. That portrait is wrong, and this book dismantles it. Drawing on Nahuatl-language sources, Spanish colonial chronicles, and recent archaeological findings from Tenochtitlan, this narrative history reconstructs the man behind t...