The seven books for getting to grips with the Americas
The people vanquished by Cortés whom we often call Aztecs but who called themselves Mexica quickly adapted to their new world, learning to write in the Roman alphabet. They used that skill to write their own history, drawing on a prior oral tradition. Camilla Townsend, a historian at Rutgers University, has mined these “annals” to offer a fresh account of the Mexica in their own words.
A flowing history of the dominant trends in political thinking in the region told through the lives of a dozen Latin American intellectuals, writers or political leaders, mainly of the 20th century. They range from José Martí to Eva Perón and Mario Vargas Llosa to Hugo Chávez, with the longest chapter being reserved for Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet who became a political liberal and was the author’s mentor. Published in 2011.
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