Revisionist history of the conquest was being written as early as the sixteenth century. Accounts by Spanish participants and later authors have long been available, starting with the publication of Hernán Cortés's letters to the king, Francisco López de Gómara's biography of Cortés commissioned by Cortés's son and heir Don Martín. That laudatory biography prompted an irate Bernal Díaz del Castillo to write his "true history" of the conquest of New Spain, finished in 1568, but first published in 1632. Multiple editions of Cortés's letters and Bernal Díaz del Castillo's "true history" have appeared over the years. Accounts from the various Nahua perspectives have appeared, including Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún's two accounts of the conquest from the Tlatelolco viewpoint, book XII of the Florentine Codex,Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, Book XII. Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles Dibble, translators and editors. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press 1975.Bernardino de Sahagún, The Conquest of New Spain, 1585 Revision, Howard F. Cline and Sarah Cline, editors and translators. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press 1989.S.L. Cline, "Revisionist Conquest History: Sahagún's Book XII," in The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth-Century Aztec Mexico. Ed. Jorge Klor de Alva et al. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Studies on Culture and Society, vol. 2, 93-106. Albany: State University of New York, 1988. Anthologies of accounts of the conquest from additional Nahua perspectives have appeared.Miguel León-Portilla, ed. The Broken Spears. 3rd ed. Boston: Beacon Press 2007,Stuart B.Schwartz, Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Bedford/St Martin's Press 2000.James Lockhart, editor & translator, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California Press 1993. Spanish accounts of the conquest of Yucatán have been available in print, but now accounts by Maya conquerors have been published in English translation.Matthew Restall, ‘’Maya Conquistador’’ Boston: Beacon Press 1998. The so-called "new conquest history" aims to encompass any encounter between Europeans and indigenous peoples in contexts beyond complex indigenous civilizations and European conquerors.Matthew Restall, "The New Conquest History," History Compass, vol 10, Feb. 2012.
