The Aztecs

The Aztecs

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  • Author: Frances F. Berdan
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 1789143616
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 233

In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths, and human sacrifice. While the Aztecs are often described as “stone age,” their achievements were remarkable. They constructed lofty temples and produced fine arts in precious stones, gold, and shimmering feathers. They crafted beautiful poetry and studied the sciences. They had schools and libraries, entrepreneurs and money, and a bewildering array of deities and dramatic ceremonies. Based on the latest research and lavishly illustrated, this book reveals the Aztecs to have created a civilization of sophistication and finesse.


Fifth Sun

Fifth Sun

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  • Author: Camilla Townsend
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0190673060
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 337

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.


Daily Life of the Aztecs

Daily Life of the Aztecs

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  • Author: Jacques Soustelle
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 9780486424859
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 388

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.


Mexico

Mexico

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  • Author: Michael D. Coe
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal


Aztecs

Aztecs

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  • Author: Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
  • Publisher: Spotlight Poets
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 528

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 16 November 2002 - 11 April 2003.


Aztecs

Aztecs

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  • Author: Inga Clendinnen
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 110769356X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 575

Recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards.


Aztec

Aztec

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  • Author: Gary Jennings
  • Publisher: Forge Books
  • ISBN: 0765392178
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 768

Gary Jennings's Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernán Cortás and his conquistadores, and their destruction of the Aztec empire. The story of Mixtli is the story of the Aztecs themselves---a compelling, epic tale of heroic dignity and a colossal civilization's rise and fall. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


The Aztecs

The Aztecs

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  • Author: David Carrasco
  • Publisher: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 0195379381
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 153

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.


The Aztec Book of Destiny

The Aztec Book of Destiny

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  • Author: Rick Holmer
  • Publisher: BookSurge LLC
  • ISBN: 9781419611636
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 420

The Aztec Book of Destiny summarizes traditional Mesoamerican beliefs about the spiritual nature of time and its influence on one's personality and fate. The ancient Aztec, Toltec and Maya believed that the day of birth, as defined in their sacred calendar, affects destiny; and this philosophy has guided their daily lives for more than 3000 years. This book condenses the scattered and disparate literature about these beliefs into a fun and informative narrative; but it goes far beyond what academics and popular authors have published to date. The author presents a unique perspective shaped by the wisdom of a traditional calendar-keeper he met in Mexico in 1973. The book's message is that the calendar is not simply an ancient and forgotten curiosity - it is as relevant today as in ancient times. The majority of the book projects the timeless Mesoamerican philosophy into contemporary Western society encouraging introspection and self-awareness.


The Aztecs at Independence

The Aztecs at Independence

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  • Author: Miriam Melton-Villanueva
  • Publisher: University of Arizona Press
  • ISBN: 0816546975
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 263

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.