Aztecs: An InterpretationIn 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent center 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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| Title | Aztecs: An Interpretation Canto (Cambridge University Press) Canto Series Canto paperback Knjižnica Canto |
| Author | Inga Clendinnen |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0521485851, 9780521485852 |
| Length | 398 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) History / Europe / Medieval History / Latin America / General History / Reference |
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