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Aztec Century

Author : Christopher Evans
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575102551
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Aztec Century written by Christopher Evans and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has fallen to the technological might of the Aztec Empire whose armies have rampaged across the globe. Now, for the first time in a millennium, the British are a subject race. Inevitably there is resistance - and among those determined to fight the invaders is Princess Catherine, elder daughter of the British monarch. But she is torn between her patriotism and her growing involvement, political and personal, with the Aztecs - and with one Aztec in particular. Then her sister is arrested and exiled for her part in an alleged terrorist attack - and Catherine finds herself walking a perilous tightrope... Sweeping from occupied Britain to the horrors of the Russian front and the savage splendour of the imperial capital in Mexico, Aztec Century is a magnificent novel of war, politics, intrigue and romance, set in a world that is both familiar - and terrifyingly alien. Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1993

The Aztec Empire

Author : Felipe Solis Olguin
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780892073160
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book The Aztec Empire written by Felipe Solis Olguin and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate exploration of early 16th century Aztec culture features over 500 archaeological objects and works from Mexico and the United States, including jewelry, works of precious metals, and household and ceremonial artifactsQmany of which have never been exhibited before in the U.S. 0-89207-316-0$85.00 / DAP / Distributed Arts Publishers

The Aztecs at Independence

Author : Miriam Melton-Villanueva
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816546975
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs at Independence written by Miriam Melton-Villanueva and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnohistory uses colonial-era native-language texts written by Nahuas to construct history from the indigenous point of view. The book offers the first internal ethnographic view of central Mexican indigenous communities in the critical time of independence, when modern Mexican Spanish developed its unique character, founded on indigenous concepts of space, time, and grammar. The Aztecs at Independence opens a window into the cultural life of writers, leaders, and worshippers--Nahua women and men in the midst of creating a vibrant community.

Nations Have the Right to Kill

Author : Richard A. Koenigsberg
Publisher : Library of Social Science
ISBN 13 : 091504224X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Nations Have the Right to Kill by : Richard A. Koenigsberg

Download or read book Nations Have the Right to Kill written by Richard A. Koenigsberg and published by Library of Social Science. This book was released on 2009 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Koenigsberg shows how Hitler's thoughts about war generated the Holocaust. While some view Hitler as an anomaly, Koenigsberg shows how both the Holocaust and two World Wars grew out of an ideology located at the heart of Western civilization: that of nationalism. Based on belief in the absolute reality and profound significance of their nations, political leaders feel that they have a right to kill and to ask their people to die.

The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

Author : Barbara E. Mundy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477317139
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City written by Barbara E. Mundy and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016 The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his followers conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and razed to the ground." But was it? Drawing on period representations of the city in sculptures, texts, and maps, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City builds a convincing case that this global capital remained, through the sixteenth century, very much an Amerindian city. Barbara E. Mundy foregrounds the role the city's indigenous peoples, the Nahua, played in shaping Mexico City through the construction of permanent architecture and engagement in ceremonial actions. She demonstrates that the Aztec ruling elites, who retained power even after the conquest, were instrumental in building and then rebuilding the city. Mundy shows how the Nahua entered into mutually advantageous alliances with the Franciscans to maintain the city's sacred nodes. She also focuses on the practical and symbolic role of the city's extraordinary waterworks—the product of a massive ecological manipulation begun in the fifteenth century—to reveal how the Nahua struggled to maintain control of water resources in early Mexico City.

The Codex Mexicanus

Author : Lori Boornazian Diel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477316736
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Codex Mexicanus written by Lori Boornazian Diel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript, known as the Codex Mexicanus, includes records pertaining to the Aztec and Christian calendars, European medical astrology, a genealogy of the Tenochca royal house, and an annals history of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan and early colonial Mexico City, among other topics. Though filled with intriguing information, the Mexicanus has long defied a comprehensive scholarly analysis, surely due to its disparate contents. In this pathfinding volume, Lori Boornazian Diel presents the first thorough study of the entire Codex Mexicanus that considers its varied contents in a holistic manner. She provides an authoritative reading of the Mexicanus’s contents and explains what its creation and use reveal about native reactions to and negotiations of colonial rule in Mexico City. Diel makes sense of the codex by revealing how its miscellaneous contents find counterparts in Spanish books called Reportorios de los tiempos. Based on the medieval almanac tradition, Reportorios contain vast assortments of information related to the issue of time, as does the Mexicanus. Diel masterfully demonstrates that, just as Reportorios were used as guides to living in early modern Spain, likewise the Codex Mexicanus provided its Nahua audience a guide to living in colonial New Spain.

Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Author : Cheryl Claassen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1316518388
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico written by Cheryl Claassen and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed comparison of Aztec and Spanish religious devotion, examining the melding of practices during the first century of contact 1519-1600.

The Aztec Empire

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Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Aztec Empire written by and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aztecs were the Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. A nomadic culture, the Aztecs eventually settled on several small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. Fearless warriors and pragmatic builders, the Aztecs created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Incas in Peru. The Aztecs are the most extensively documented of all Amerindian civilizations at the time of European contact in the 16th century. Various sources, including those of religious, military, and social historians left invaluable records of all aspects of life and together with modern archaeological inquiries portray the formation and flourishing of a complex imperial state. The Aztec Empire, organized by Felipe Sol's Olgu'n, the distinguished curator and director of the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City, provides not only a thorough representation of Aztec society at the zenith of the empire in the 15th century, but also the context for its development, expansion, and influence. The exhibition features more than 500 archaeological objects and works from Mexico and the United States, including jewelry, works of precious metals, and household as well as ceremonial artifacts. Many of the objects have never been seen outside Mexico, and many will be exhibited with works from the U.S. collections for the first time. This accompanying catalogue includes scholarly essays by foremost Mexican and U.S. authorities from diverse fields and promises to become a major reference on the subject. The essays provide in-depth discussions of various aspects of the culture, such as the Aztec view of the cosmos; their religion and rituals; daily life of common citizens, as well as the nobility; and ecological and anthropological evaluations. It also provides expanded, detailed catalogue information for each work in the exhibition.

The Aztecs

Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195379381
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs written by David Carrasco and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.

Conquistador

Author : Buddy Levy
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553384716
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Conquistador written by Buddy Levy and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in carrying out his intentions by virtually annihilating a proud and accomplished native people is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story. In Tenochtitlán Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas and ruler of a city whose splendor equaled anything in Europe. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged. The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.

Aztec Autumn

Author : Gary Jennings
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765317513
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Aztec Autumn written by Gary Jennings and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Aztec empire falls to the Spaniards, a young Aztec named Tenamaxtli begins recruiting from among his fellow survivors of the Conquest to once again challenge the Spaniards and restore the Aztec empire.

The Aztec Kings

Author : Susan D. Gillespie
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547602
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Aztec Kings written by Susan D. Gillespie and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Scholars have long viewed histories of the Aztecs either as flawed chronologies plagued by internal inconsistencies and intersource discrepancies or as legends that indiscriminately mingle reality with the supernatural. But this new work draws fresh conclusions from these documents, proposing that Aztec dynastic history was recast by its sixteenth-century recorders not merely to glorify ancestors but to make sense out of the trauma of conquest and colonialism. The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time—which required that history constantly be reinterpreted to achieve continuity between past and present—and to treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, whose stories reveal how the Aztecs used "history" to construct, elaborate, and reify ideas about the nature of rulership and the cyclical nature of the cosmos, and how they projected the Spanish conquest deep into the Aztec past in order to make history accommodate that event. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.

Fifth Sun

Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190673060
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Fifth Sun written by Camilla Townsend and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.

The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society

Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521518113
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society written by Inga Clendinnen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century.

A Soldier in Every Son

Author : Luis Mario Moncada
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849436193
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book A Soldier in Every Son written by Luis Mario Moncada and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late 14th century in the Valley of Mexico and a small, unknown tribe called the Aztecs propel themselves from nomadic mercenaries to rulers of a great empire. Passion, power and intrigue play out in this epic political thriller which charts the history of an ancient civilisation. Spanning a century and based on true events chronicled in the Aztec codices, A Soldier In Every Son – The Rise of the Aztecs is closely inspired by Shakespeare’s history plays. A Compañía Nacional de Teatro de México/Royal Shakespeare Company co-production. Originally commissioned for the World Shakespeare Festival which is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival.

Daily Life of the Aztecs

Author : Jacques Soustelle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486424859
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Aztecs written by Jacques Soustelle and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Mexicans at the beginning of the sixteenth century, focusing on the daily activities of the city-dwellers of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and discussing society, religion, domestic habits, marriage and family, war, the arts, and other aspects of daily life.

Aztec and Inca Empires, Other Native Peoples of the Americas, and the Conquistadores 1450-1608

Author : Ian Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901543032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Aztec and Inca Empires, Other Native Peoples of the Americas, and the Conquistadores 1450-1608 written by Ian Heath and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has probably never been a single volume with such extensive information on the uniforms and costumes of the European conquest of the Americas. Ian Heath has assembled 247 drawings and other illustrations to depict the native peoples of South America and the eastern parts of North America as well as Spanish, English, French and even German adventurers and explorers. The accompanying text also offers a clear account of the rise and development of the various European colonies. Includes extensive bibliography.