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Books on: aztec mexico

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Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise, and Fall of the Aztec Nation

Book by George C. Vaillant; Doubleday, 1962

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Aztecs, Mexico--History--To 1519

Collections: History, Entire Library

...illustrations and articles from Natural History . I wish to thank Miss D. Levett Bradley for her excellent end sheet maps of Aztec Mexico and, last, but by no means least, Miss Frances Jay for her unflagging patience and judgment in preparing this manuscript...
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Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain

Book by Max Harris; University of Texas Press, 2000

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Moros Y Cristianos Festival--Mexico, Moros Y Cristianos Festival--Spain

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Icazbalceta, pp. i-64. 1891. Mexico City: Salvador Chavez Hayhoe,1941...Exfoliation of Medieval Drama in Aztec Mexico. New Theatre Quarterly 2 (1986...William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru...
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Musical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to NAFTA

Book by Mark Pedelty; University of Texas Press, 2004

Subjects:

Mexico City (Mexico)--Civilization, Mexico City (Mexico)--Social Life And Customs, Music--Mexico--Mexico City--History And Criticism, Music--Religious Aspects, Rites And Ceremonies--Mexico--Mexico City

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Cuatro obras, 77-117. Mexico City: Colibri. Leon de Infante...Infante en la intimidad conmigo. Mexico City: Editorial Comaval. Le6n-Portilla, Miguel. r963. Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study...Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Bos- ton : Beacon Press...
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Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan

Book by Philip P. Arnold; University Press of Colorado, 1999

Subjects:

Aztec Cosmology, Aztecs--Land Tenure, Aztecs--Rites And Ceremonies, Geographical Perception--Mexico--Mexico, Valley Of--History, Tlaloc (Aztec Deity)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Landscape in the Valley of Mexico: Implications of Examining...Sacrifice and Sustenance in Aztec Mexico. In To Change Place: Aztec...Understanding: Ritual Ecology and the Aztec Tlalocan Land scape . Ph...Orientations to the Valley of Mexico. History of Religions 35...Heri tage: Teotihuacan to the Aztecs . Edited by David Carrasco...
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Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700

Book by Donald E. Chipman; University of Texas Press, 2005

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Aztecs--Kings And Rulers--Genealogy, Families Of Royal Descent--Mexico, Moctezuma, Isabel--1509-1550--Genealogy, Montezuma--Ii--Emperor Of Mexico--Ca. 1480-1520--Genealogy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...House, 1977. Hassig, Ross. Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion...of Oklahoma Press, 1988. . Mexico and the Spanish Conquest. London...Espana. 2 vols. Guadalajara, Mexico: E. Arvina Levy, ig6g. Jones...querque : University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Keen, Benjamin...

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Journal Articles on: aztec mexico

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Some Aspects of the Aztec Religion in the Hopi Kachina Cult

Journal article by Susan E. James; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000

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Aztec religion, Aztecs--Religious aspects, Cults--Analysis, Hopis--Religious aspects, Kachinas--Religious aspects, Pueblos (Native American people)--Religious aspects, Pueblos (Native Americans)--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--Analysis, Rituals--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...of Tozoztontli, the Aztecs "were made to believe...an ancient god in Mexico, who had been incorporated into the Aztec pantheon from those...important. For the Aztec, the tears of sacrificed...sympathetic magic. Today in Mexico, this belief is incorporated...gods and ceremonies of Aztec culture are older than the Aztecs themselves. (3...
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Aztec Human Sacrifice: Cross-Cultural Assessments of the Ecological Hypothesis

Journal article by Michael Winkelman; Ethnology, Vol. 37, 1998

Subjects:

Aztecs--Social aspects, Human sacrifice--Social aspects

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...the unparalleled scope of Aztec human sacrifice and cannibalism...fertile central valley of Mexico is surrounded by poor farming...significant source of protein. The Aztecs did not ordinarily eat people...sacrifice. While discussions of Aztec human sacrifice and cannibalism...these as unique features of Aztec society, the cross-cultural...presented here suggest that the Aztecs typify patterns of human sacrifice...
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Aztec Cannibalism and Maize Consumption: the Serotonin Deficiency Link

Journal article by Michele Ernandes, Rita Cedrini, Marco Giammanco, Maurizio La Guardia, Andrea Milazzo; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 43, 2002

Subjects:

Aztec civilization, Cannibalism, Corn, Diet, Neurotransmitters

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...Introduction Human Sacrifices among the Aztecs The Aztec human sacrifice/cannibalism complex...Astonishingly (for Catholic priests), the Aztecs had the concept of transubstantiation! The structural likeness between Aztec religion and Catholic doctrine had been...rapidly and without a manifest reason. Aztec religiousness showed similar aspects: the Aztecs acquired from neighboring peoples some...
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Montezuma: Warlord of the Aztecs

Journal article by Michael E. Smith; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Montezuma: Warlord of the Aztecs (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Montezuma: Warlord of the Aztecs. by Michael E. Smith Montezuma: Warlord of the Aztecs. By Peter Trouras. (Washington...brief biography of the final Aztec emperor, Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin...able to illuminate aspects of Aztec warfare and military organization...Quetzalcoatl returning to rule Mexico--to explain the kings apparent...
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Language Death in Central Mexico: The Decline of Nahuatl and the New Bilingual Maintenance Programs

Journal article by Kellie Rolstad; Bilingual Review, Vol. 26, 2001

Subjects:

Aztec language--Social aspects, Language policy--Social aspects, Mexican native peoples--Social aspects, Mexico--Social aspects, Mexico--Social policy

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...different regions of central Mexico. I then present an overview...Language Situation of Modern Aztecs The Nahuatl-speaking people...and linguistic context of the Aztec people from the point of their...Background The conquest of the Aztecs, or "Mexica" people, by...Mexica" was derived the name "Mexico" and the language of the Mexica...

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Magazine Articles on: aztec mexico

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Cultivating the Secrets of Aztec Gardens

Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 44, November 1992

Subjects:

Agricultural systems--Analysis, Aztecs--History, Mexico--Agriculture

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...CITY PRE-COLUMBIAN MEXICO presented the European...At the height of the Aztec Empire, the agricultural...Population estimates of the Aztecs island-capital of...With these words the Aztecs took control of the...thus evolved under the Aztec fist. Necessity under...compiled an account of Aztec daily life from native...they sabotaged the Aztecs finest water works in...soon rival flooding as Mexico Citys worst natural...
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Two Cheers for the Conquistadors: The Death-Obsessed and Inward-Looking Aztec Civilisation Sowed the Seeds of Its Own Destruction

Magazine article by Tim Stanley; History Today, Vol. 61, March 2011

Subjects:

Aztec culture--Influence, Aztecs--Social aspects, Conquest of Mexico, 1519-1521--Evaluation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the collapse of the Aztec empire distribute the...disease that crippled Mexico may have been native...recognise the symptoms. The Aztecs did and they had given...Tenochtitlan. Third, Aztec civilisation was on...for sacrifice. The Aztec rulers were convinced...consecrated in 1487 the Aztecs recorded that 84,000...there is evidence that Mexico was already suffering...
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Aztecs: A New Perspective: John M.D. Pohl Reviews Recent Scholarship about the Empire Swept Away by Cortes

Magazine article by John M.D. Pohl; History Today, Vol. 52, December 2002

Subjects:

Aztecs--History, Aztecs--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Elizabeth Hill Boone, The Aztec World (St Remy Press, Washington...Matos Moctezuma, Moctezumas Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World (University of Colorado...Moctezuma, The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan...directed numerous excavations in Mexico, Central America, Canada...
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Aztec Wonders in Chicago

Magazine article; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 60, September 2008

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Aztec culture--Exhibitions, Historical art--Exhibitions, History in art--Exhibitions

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Aztec Wonders in Chicago...artifacts on loan from Mexico Citys National Museum...been shown outside of Mexico and will be on display...the history of the Aztec warrior. Fierce and...throughout present-day Mexico. Although the empire...
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The Mystery of Aztec Sacrifice

Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 24, Autumn 2000

Subjects:

Atonement--Religious aspects, Aztecs--Religion, Human sacrifice--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The Mystery of Aztec Sacrifice "Aztec Human Sacrifice as Expiation...the early 1500s, the Aztecs of Mexico ritually sacrificed...Catholic missionaries in Mexico saw "striking similarities between Aztec religion and Christianity...specialists deny that the Aztecs had a "religion of...

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Newspaper Articles on: aztec mexico

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THE EMPEROR OF DOOM; He Thought That His Bloodthirsty Human Sacrifices Would Stop the Sun Dying. but Moctezuma II, the Fearsome Leader of the Aztecs Celebrated in the British Museum's Latest Blockbuster Show, Faced a More Real Threat, Says Historian Tom Holland

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 17, 2009

Subjects:

Aztecs, British Museum, Historians, Holland, Tom (American writer), Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, Museums

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Brown). MILESTONES IN AZTEC HISTORY Early 14th century: The Aztecs arrive on the shore of Mexico. The founding of Tenochtitlan...establishment of the Aztec monarchy 1428: The Aztecs establish themselves...Moctezuma II to the Aztec throne 1519: The arrival of the Spaniards in Mexico 1520: The death of...
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MONTEZUMA'S REVENGE; Bodily Fluids Are a Common Theme of the British Museum's Aztec Artefacts and Anish Kapoor's Misfiring Japes at the Royal Academy

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 1, 2009

Subjects:

Aztecs, British Museum, Museums

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...one of whom was Viceroy of Mexico two centuries later and the...objects retrieved from the Aztec metropolis that lies below pullulating Mexico City, where the water table...gesso overlay on which the Aztecs painted in strong earth pigments...refined as they are, for the Aztecs, having no hard metals...the showy barbarism of the Aztec world. if its craftsmen were...
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Museum Show Is Monument to Aztec Ruler

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 14, 2009

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Aztecs, British Museum, Museums

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Museum Show Is Monument to Aztec Ruler. Byline: Louise Jury...has never been seen outside Mexico is the centrepiece of the British...curators managed to persuade Mexico to part temporarily with some...National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The exhibition also includes...
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An Aztec Mask, Possibly Representing

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 8, 2009

Subjects:

Aztecs, British Museum

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

An Aztec Mask, Possibly Representing. An Aztec mask, possibly representing Xiuhtecuhtli, covered in turquoise mosaic from 15th-16th Century Mexico is unveiled at the British Museum to announce its new exhibition Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
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VERY CIVILISED SAVAGES; It Was One of the Greatest Yet Most Bloodthirsty Civilisations in History, Practising Human Sacrifice on an Industrial Scale. but a Major New Exhibition Asks Who Were More Brutal - the Aztecs, or the 300 Europeans Who Annihilated Them?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 23, 2009

Subjects:

Aztecs--Exhibitions, Soldiers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was slipping away. Among the Aztecs, there was growing discontent...reinforced army and took the Aztec capital after a bloody battle...as ruler. The reign of the Aztecs was over. Much of their heritage...captains to the daughters of Aztec noblemen. From this integration...over it. Given the name of Mexico City, it has grown into a...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: aztec mexico

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Aztec

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...rule through him. The Aztec revolted, Montezuma...1965); A. Caso, The Aztecs, People of the Sun...and Religion in Ancient Mexico (1961); J. Soustelle...Vaillant, The Aztecs of Mexico (rev. ed. 1962...of Darts: The Mexican Aztecs (1973); G. W. Conrad...Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism...
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Mexico , Country, North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...civilizations flourished in Mexico long before the arrival of Spanish...Toltec (900 1200) and the Aztec (1200 1519). Other notable civilizations of pre-Columbian Mexico are the Mixtec and the Zapotec . The first Europeans to visit Mexico were Francisco Fernandez de...
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QuerÉtaro , City, Mexico

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...de Arteaga state, central Mexico. It is a distribution center...among the most important in Mexico. Queretaro is also a popular tourist center. An Aztec city, Queretaro was conquered...the temporary capital of Mexico when the United States invaded...
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Mexico , City, Mexico

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico, founded in the 16th cent...has been the metropolis of Mexico since even before New Spain...is built on the ruins of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan , which was begun by the Aztecs c.1345 and razed by Hernan...During the colonial period Mexico City served as the capital...
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New Mexico

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and beautiful country of New Mexico are under federal control as...Caverns National Park and the Aztec Ruins National Monument . Thousands...Government and Higher Education New Mexico is governed under the constitution...has five electoral votes. New Mexico has been generally Democratic...

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