Aztecs

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Cambridge University Press, May 15, 2014 - History - 554 pages
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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Contents

The Public Image
19
Local Perspectives
63
Victims
121
Warriors Priests and Merchants
156
The Masculine Self Discovered
200
Wives
216
Mothers
246
The Female Being Revealed
292
Aesthetics
301
The World Transformed the World
333
Defeat
375
Select Bibliography
511
Index
545
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Inga Clendinnen was born in Geelong, Australia on August 17, 1934. She studied history at the University of Melbourne. She became a historian of Aztec and Mayan culture and society. She taught at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including Reading the Holocaust, Tiger's Eye, Dancing with Strangers, and Agamemnon's Kiss. She died on September 8, 2016 at the age of 82.

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