Aztecs: An Interpretation - Softcover

Clendinnen, Inga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521446953 ISBN 13: 9780521446952

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an extraordinary recreation of everyday life in the city. Contrasting the beauty and sophistication of Aztec culture with the savagery of human sacrifice, she attempts to explain the philosophy, rituals, and social structures that underpinned this remarkable empire.

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About the Author:

Inga Clendinnen is Emeritus Scholar in History at La Trobe University. She is also the author of Aztecs (Cambridge, 1991), Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1999), and Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in the Yucatan, 1517-1570 (2nd edition 2003, Cambridge).

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521446953
• ISBN 13: 9780521446952
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 414