Reddit reviews The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
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Yea I haven't really ever seen any documentary about the Mexica or other mesoamerican groups that wasn't built around the older conquest myths like Cortez was mistaken for a god or the spaniards single handily beat them, but that doesn't mean that those old ideas aren't changing. There's a few pbs ones I've seen about the Aztecs and new discoveries of the teotihucan culture. Watching a documentary is easy but if you can reading is your best bet. Conquest by Hugh Thomas is an extremely detailed and well researched account of the rise and fall of the Aztecs, buried Mirror by Carlos Fuentes is an examination of the rise of a unified Spanish nation state and the parrels with the cultures of the new world and shows that the two groups had more in common than one would think. 1491 by Charles C. Mann has some stuff on the Aztecs, but looks at different new world cultures and shows that overall they were more sophisticated than generally thought of
https://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Cortes-Montezuma-Fall-Mexico/dp/0671511041
https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Mirror-Reflections-Spain-World/dp/0395924995
https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059
The Buried Mirror by Carlos Fuentes. It's the book I'm using in my Hispanic civilization class, and it's quite good. It basically gives a broad overview of Hispanic history and culture, including both Latin America and Spain. It's very well written; Fuentes is primarily known as a novelist.
Also, George Orwell has written some really good non-fiction books. Homage to Catalonia is my favorite (it's about his personal experiences during the Spanish Civil War), but there are others too.
The Buried Mirror is what you're looking for!