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This essay reviews the following works:
History of the Chichimeca Nation: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Seventeenth-Century Chronicle of Ancient Mexico. Edited and translated by Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, Peter B. Villella, and Pablo Garcia Loaeza. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. Pp. ix+334. $ 24.95 paper. ISBN: 978-0-8061-6399-4.
The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in the Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain. By Lori Boornazian Diel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. Pp. vii+228. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-4773-1673-3.
The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Edited by Jeanette Favrot Peterson and Kevin Terraciano. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Pp. vi+256. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-4773-1840-9.
Libros e imprenta en México en el siglo XVI. By Mariana Garone Gravier. Mexico City: UNAM, 2021. Pp. 112. $100 MXN paper. ISBN: 9786073046787.
Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico. By Alex Hidalgo. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Pp. xv+184. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 978-1-4773-1752-5.
The Legacy of Rulership in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Historia de la nacíon chichimeca. By Leisa A. Kauffmann. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. ix+282. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-8263-6037-3.
La caída de Tenochtitlán y la posconquista ambiental de la cuenca y ciudad de México. By Sergio Miranda Pacheco. Mexico City: UNAM, 2021. Pp. 112. $100 MXN, paper. ISBN: 9786073046732.
Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past: Colonial Nahua and Quechua Elites in their Own Worlds. Edited by Justyna Olko, John Sullivan, and Jan Szemiński. Denver: University of Colorado Press, 2017. Pp. vii+363. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 978-1-60732-833-9.
Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest. By Paul A. Scolieri. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Pp. vii+227. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-292-74492-9.
Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640. By Miguel A. Valerio. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp vii264. $99.99 hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-316-51428-2.
When scholars consider the transition of Mesoamerica from Indigenous polities to European colonies, few spaces symbolize this change to the same degree as Tenochtitlan-Mexico City. The processes of colonization in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City are unique because at the moment that the Mexica (or Aztec) huey tlatoani (or emperor) Moctezuma II sent his spies and emissaries to gather information on the strange men who had landed on the coast,...