Mexico

John M.D. Pohl reviews recent scholarship about the empire swept away by Cortes.

The man who conquered Mexico died on December 2nd, 1547.

Warwick Bray on a new illustrated edition of a colonial 'Domesday Book' for the Aztec world.

Fernando Cervantes explores the conversion process from polytheistic human sacrifice to devotion to the Mother Church.

What would have happened if the native Americans had been left to their own devices? Brian Fagan probes the rise and fall of Aztec and Mayan society and proffers some intriguing observations.

Ross Hassig questions whether the rationale behind the fighting in Mexico which Cortes encountered in 1519 has not been misunderstood.

Ann Hills explores long-term excavations on the ancient Central American civilisation.

'America has not come to terms with its own history ... and regards Latin American nationalism as a conspiracy against its inevitable and popular domination of the western hemisphere.

'Compare the wealth and refinement of cities such as Mexico... in the middle of the eighteenth century, with the austere simplicity, verging on poverty, of... Philadelphia, a misleading splendour; what was dawn for the United States was twilight for Latin America...' Octavio Paz