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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2014
    15 May 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107589094
    9781107693562
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107589094
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.85kg, 574 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Latin American History, General
    Series:
    Canto Classics
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Latin American History, General
    Series:
    Canto Classics
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    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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    '… 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.'

    Source: London Review of Books

    'This is an outstanding book …'

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

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