Aztecs: An Interpretation (Canto Classics) - Softcover

Clendinnen, Inga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110769356X ISBN 13: 9781107693562

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies.

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Críticas:

'... a fascinating, thought-provoking book. Aztecs offers a gripping account of an alien society and thus enlarges our apprehension of the sheer diversity of human culture.' London Review of Books

'This is an outstanding book ...' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Reseña del editor:

In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 110769356X
• ISBN 13: 9781107693562
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 606