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A Sickness in their Hearts: Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico

9/21/2013

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How did Hernán Cortés and his “300” soldiers topple the Aztecs? What motivated these conquistadores, and what legal justifications did they use to legitimize this conquest? Find the answer to these questions and more as we explore the clashing of the Aztec and Spanish empires.

Podcaster: John

Further Reading

Iniga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan 1517-1570, Cambridge (2003).

J.H. Elliot, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830, Yale (2007).

J.H. Elliot, Imperial Spain: 1469-1716, Penguin (2002).

Henry Kamen, Empire: How Spain Became a World Power 1492-1763, Harper (2002).

​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
11 Comments
Rosi
9/21/2013 05:43:22 am

Is there somewhere a Download-Link (mp3 or ogg)?

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Elizabeth
9/21/2013 06:07:32 am

Hi Rosi,

If you click on the Download on iTunes link it will allow you to download this specific episode. If you would rather not go through iTunes, you can click on the RSS feed symbol on the left and it will take you to our feed and you can select which episode you would like to download.

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numen
9/21/2013 08:31:06 am

I do not have iTunes. When I go through RSS it takes me right back here. There is no link to an mp3 file like there used to be, so you have totally prevented many users from accessing the podcasts.

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Elizabeth
9/21/2013 01:05:15 pm

Hi Numen,

When we were switching things over, a wrongly linked RSS button was added. If you click on the RSS feed button on the top left (above the Download on iTunes button and next to the email image) that one works properly and we are fixing the other one, so hopefully by the time you read this all will be well. We changed because we are able to view how people listen and follow us and the majority (by an overwhelming number) subscribe via feedburner or iTunes.

We're sorry about the confusion over the RSS feeds. We appreciate you telling us what happened.

Thanks!
Elizabeth

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numen
9/21/2013 03:31:56 pm

Thanks, Elizabeth, that is fast service! I am able to download and listen now (not quite as convenient as simply clicking play, but workable).. I will also try the RSS reader on my other box to see if I can get it to work more conveniently. Again, thanks for quick turnaround.

Elizabeth
9/21/2013 03:35:06 pm

No problem, Numen! Thanks for letting us know so we could fix it :)

Rosi
9/22/2013 12:49:58 am

That's fixing it for me, too, I simply changed the RSS Feed from http://footnotinghistory.weebly.com/2/feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/footnotinghistory ...

Elizabeth
9/22/2013 04:13:14 am

That's awesome, Rosi! Glad to hear it.

Ben McCoy
11/10/2014 12:43:30 am

Please pass this message onto Dr. Keating:
The Civil War was not solely about slavery!

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Thomas Navarro
11/10/2014 12:44:16 am

Also tell Dr. Keating that Irish is a language.

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Ryan
11/10/2014 03:40:01 am

Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. It is very clear in the ordinances of secession, the Confederate constitution, early speeches by Confederate leaders, and the speeches of the southern commissioners. Its also been shown that a majority of men who volunteered to serve in the Civil War had a fairly strong connection to the institution- whether they were slave owners, family of, or living in close proximity to. In fact, I would argue that slavery was the single most important political issue from 1820 onward and defined every major political decision made by the federal government. While the average southern soldier may not have said they enlisted specifically to defend slavery, every white southerner, rich and poor, had a vested interest in preserving the institution, for social, political, and economic means.

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