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One of the best graduate courses I ever took was Dr. De La Teja’s History of Colonial Mexico

By Seamus O'Sparks on November 2, 2013 — 1 min read

One of the best graduate courses I ever took was Dr. De La Teja’s History of Colonial Mexico (New Spain). The mythos is that the Mexica (Aztecs) believed that Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl returning. This belief gave Cortes the kind of berth he needed to topple an empire. In the wake of death, disease,... More