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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595221610
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Trapped in Tenochtitlan written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Manchip White
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cortés and the Downfall of the Aztec Empire written by Jon Manchip White and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallels the historical backgrounds and human motivations of the Spaniards and Aztecs, as they grapple in the life-and-death battle for the Aztec Empire.
Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190673060
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
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.
Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108894410
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Everyday Life in the Aztec World written by Frances F. Berdan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. The first section focuses on people from an array of social classes - the emperor, a priest, a feather worker, a merchant, a farmer, and a slave - who interacted in the economic, social and religious realms of the Aztec world. In the second section, the authors examine four important life events where the lives of these and others intersected: the birth and naming of a child, market day, a day at court, and a battle. Through the microscopic views of individual types of lives, and interweaving of those lives into the broader Aztec world, Berdan and Smith recreate everyday life in the final years of the Aztec Empire.
Author : John Pohl
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841769349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Aztecs and Conquistadores written by John Pohl and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish conquest of Mexico was a remarkable military expedition that had a huge impact on the history of the world. Hernán Cortés led the expedition, the aim of which was the addition of Mexico to the Spanish Empire, and the extraction of Aztec riches. Following the appearance of portents, the Aztecs were expecting a catastrophe in 1519, and the Spanish invasion fulfilled this expectation. Although they fought fiercely to the end, the Aztec civilisation was doomed, and the face of Mexico would be changed for ever. This book examines the campaign, but also the lives, training and experience of the men on both sides: the Spanish conquerors and their opponents, the exotic Aztecs, who were fighting for their lives and their civilisation. Contains material peviously published in Essential Histories 60, Warrior 32 and Warrior 40.
Author : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195330838
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Handbook to Life in the Aztec World written by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062427288
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book When Montezuma Met Cortés written by Matthew Restall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas—has long been the symbol of Cortés’s bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses “the Meeting”—as Restall dubs their first encounter—as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés’s and Montezuma’s posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived—leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself.
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405183683
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A History of Latin America to 1825 written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated and enhanced third edition of A History of Latin America to 1825 presents a comprehensive narrative survey of Latin American history from the region's first human presence until the majority of Iberian colonies in America emerged as sovereign states c. 1825. This edition features new content on the history of women, gender, Africans in the Iberian colonies, and pre-Columbian peoples Includes more illustrations to aid learning: over 50 figures and photographs, several accompanied by short essays Concentrates on the colonial period and earlier, expanding coverage of the period and incorporating more social and cultural history with the political narrative Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127255
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Conquest written by Hugh Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472856929
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book 100 Greatest Battles written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated introduction to some of the greatest battles in world history, from the iconic encounters of the Ancient World such as Thermopylae and Cannae, through to the major clashes of the 20th century epitomized by Stalingrad and Khe Sanh. This concise study by renowned military historian Angus Konstam examines one hundred of the most famous battles from world history. It includes great naval engagements such as Salamis, Trafalgar, Jutland and Midway; pivotal land battles that decided the fate of nations, such as Hastings, Yorktown, Gettysburg and the Somme; and the impact of the new dimension of aerial warfare in the 20th century at Pearl Harbor, in the Battle of Britain and in the skies over Hiroshima. This highly illustrated book features 100 full-colour battlescene artworks from Osprey's comprehensive archive and is the ideal introduction to the battles that changed the course of history.
Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Harvill Press
ISBN 13 : 9781844137435
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Conquest of Mexico written by Hugh Thomas and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Thomas' account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Aztec empire under the onslaughts of Cort's' conquistadors is one of the great historical works of our times. A thrilling and sweeping narrative, it also bristles with moral and political issues. After setting out from Spain - against explicit instructions - in 1519, some 500 conquistadors destroyed their ships and fought their way towards the capital of the greatest empire of the New World. When they finally reached Tenochtitlan, the huge city on lake Texcoco, they were given a courtly welcome by Montezuma, who believed them to be gods. Their later abduction of the emperor, their withdrawl and the final destruction of the city make the Conquest one of the most enthralling and tragic episodes in world history.
Author : Glen Carman
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557534039
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Rhetorical Conquests written by Glen Carman and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributor biographical information
Author : Barbara E. Mundy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477317139
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
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.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100015923X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book War In The Early Modern World, 1450-1815 written by Jeremy Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern period. It also considers the nature and role of technological change, and the relationship between military developments and state-building.
Author : Charles L. Mee Jr.
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612306144
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The End of the Aztecs written by Charles L. Mee Jr. and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moment Hernán Cortés and his men landed on the shore of Mexico in 1519 was a catastrophic one for Aztec leader Moctezuma, and their chance meeting led to the destruction of an entire civilization. Here, in this essay by award-winning author Charles L. Mee Jr., is the haunting, humbling story of the end of the Aztecs and the inevitability of the unpredictable in human affairs.
Author : Barbara E. Mundy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292766564
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
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 2015-07-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1325, the Aztecs founded their capital city Tenochtitlan, which grew to be one of the world's largest cities before it was violently destroyed in 1521 by conquistadors from Spain and their indigenous allies. Re-christened and reoccupied by the Spanish conquerors as Mexico City, it became the pivot of global trade linking Europe and Asia in the 17th century, and one of the modern world's most populous metropolitan areas. However, the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan and its people did not entirely disappear when the Spanish conquistadors destroyed it. By reorienting Mexico City-Tenochtitlan as a colonial capital and indigenous city, Mundy demonstrates its continuity across time. Using maps, manuscripts, and artworks, she draws out two themes: the struggle for power by indigenous city rulers and the management and manipulation of local ecology, especially water, that was necessary to maintain the city's sacred character. What emerges is the story of a city-within-a city that continues to this day"--
Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN 13 : 0787705276
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Early North America written by Tim McNeese and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed and richly illustrated overview of the lives of the first Americans from their earliest migrations over the Bering land bridge to their initial encounters with European explorers. It traces the settlement of these early nomadic peoples across North Americathe evolution of tools, the establishment of agriculture, and the rise of elaborate regional cultures. Styles of shelter, modes of travel and transport, and the prevalence of art and ornamentation suggest remarkable creativity and human ingenuity. Tribal beliefs, habits, practices, and unique structures of various tribal societies are discussed. The last third of the book documents European "discovery" of the New World, the often brutal rivalries among European colonizers, and the savage treatment of native peoples. Challenging review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Maps, tests, answer key, extensive bibliography, and bonus timeline are included.
