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Books on: aztecs history

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The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule

Book by Lori Boornazian Diel; University of Texas Press, 2008

Subjects:

Aztec Art--Mexico--Tepexpan, Aztecs--First Contact With Europeans, Aztecs--Mexico--Tepexpan--History--Chronology, Mexico--History--Spanish Colony, 1540-1810, Mexico--History--To 1810, Spain--Colonies--America--Administration, Tepexpan (Mexico)--History--Chronology, Tira De Tepechpan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...established. Many Aztec histories begin by recalling this migration...By pre- senting these histories on parallel tracks, Painter...commonly recorded in other Aztec histories, both pic- torial and alphabetic...of Painter As picto- rial history for its primary meaning and...and again to the larger Aztec empire, Painter As agenda...Tenochtitlan. MIGRATION For the Aztecs, history typically begins...
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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

...American Museum of Natural History in the Valley of Mexico, 1928...1937 b The Death Throes of the Aztec Nation Natural History , Vol...Menasha . 1939 a The Twilight of Aztec Civilization Natural History...305, New York . 1951 The Aztecs of Mexico , Penguin Books...1940 A Sacred Almanac of the Aztecs Tonalamatl of the Codex Borbonicus...
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Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700

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

Subjects:

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

Codice Chimalpopoca: Spanish and Aztec. Trans. Primo Feliciano Velazquez...University Press, 1986. Davies, Nigel. The Aztec Empire:I?eToltec Resurgence. Norman...University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. . I?e Aztecs: A History. NewYork: G. P Putnams Sons, 1973...
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The Virgin's Children: Life in an Aztec Village Today

Book by William Madsen; University of Texas Press, 1960

Subjects:

Aztecs, Indians Of Mexico--Mexico, Valley Of, Indians Of Mexico--Social Life And Customs

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Editorial Emma Hurtado, Mexico, D.F. Caso Alfonso 1937 The Religion of the Aztecs . Editorial Fray B. de Sahagun, Mexico, D.F. 1953 "New World Culture History: Middle America". In Anthropology Today . University of Chicago Press. Ciruelo...
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The Daily Life of the Aztecs: On the Eve of the Spanish Conquest

Book by Jacques Soustelle, Patrick O'Brian; Macmillan, 1962

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Aztecs, Indians Of Mexico--Social Life And Customs

Collections: History, Entire Library

...steppes, of whom the most recent were the Aztecs. All these tribes adopted the political...and it must be admitted that in the history of human civilisations this is a most unusual success. The Aztecs and their neighbours therefore knew that...were in friendly relations with the Aztec empire without being subject to it...

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Journal Articles on: aztecs history

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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...disastrous consequences for the Aztec people. This revisionist account...in articles in the leading history journals, all of which are...
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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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...these as unique features of Aztec society, the cross-cultural...presented here suggest that the Aztecs typify patterns of human sacrifice...1977b. The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice. Natural History 86(4):47-51. Hassig, R. 1990. Aztec Warfare. History Today 40...
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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

Subjects:

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

...to the ceremonies of Tozoztontli, the Aztecs "were made to believe that their children...who had been incorporated into the Aztec pantheon from those of earlier cultures...remembered that, for the most part, the Aztecs inherited their religion from earlier cultures and thus the gods and ceremonies of Aztec culture are older than the Aztecs themselves. (3.) Linguistic comparisons...
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Temptation and Glory in One Pima and Two Aztec Mythologies

Journal article by Donald M. Bahr; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 46, 2004

Subjects:

Vansina, Jan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...gap"--while the Aztecs generally, but variously...Hohokam less persuasive as history, because of the gap, than the Aztecs accounts of the equally...continuous text like the Aztec and be unpersuaded...at the start of the Aztecs time in the Valley of...discounts that whole history and ends its story in effect with the Aztec chiefs (there are no...
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British Conquistadors and Aztec Priests: The Horror of Southey's Madoc

Journal article by Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 82, 2003

Subjects:

Madoc (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Southey, Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Southey, Robert--Works

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...of the conquistador histories that created him? Ultimately...triumphant, as the Aztecs rebuild their temples...and the evidence of history overwhelms the constructions...Ross Hassig, Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico...Hassigs study of the Aztecs perspective of historical...evidence regarding the Aztec calendar and the accounts...

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Magazine Articles on: aztecs history

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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

...our perception of the Aztecs have come with a critical reappraisal of the histories of the Conquest itself...portrayed the defeat of the Aztec empire as a brilliant...Elizabeth Hill Boone, The Aztec World (St Remy Press...Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World (University of...Diego Duran, The History of the Natives of New...Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan...
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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

...politicisation of the history of the Conquest...collapse of the Aztec empire distribute...the symptoms. The Aztecs did and they had...brink of collapse. History shows that a civilisation...destructive. As went the Aztecs, so went the Athenians...weep for the poor Aztec killed on the battlefield...this example. The Aztecs offer a warning from history: any society that...
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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

Collections: Entire Library

...practice thus evolved under the Aztec fist. Necessity under these...Sahagun compiled an account of Aztec daily life from native informants...Moors, they sabotaged the Aztecs finest water works in one way...to control the water as the Aztecs had done, was to eliminate...chinamperos alive today. Were not history yet." The person most responsible...
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Aztec Wonders in Chicago

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: History, Entire Library

...watches over the gallery dedicated to the history of the Aztec warrior. Fierce and well-trained warriors dominated the Aztec culture, and the exhibit ends with the final Aztec war against a small group of Spaniards...
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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...Michel Graulich, in History of Religions (May 2000...the early 1500s, the Aztecs of Mexico ritually sacrificed...Paris, suggests that the Aztecs had a complex theology...The author notes that Aztec texts such as the myth...

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Newspaper Articles on: aztecs history

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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

...Bloodthirsty Civilisations in History, Practising Human Sacrifice...Were More Brutal - the Aztecs, or the 300 Europeans...the rich and thriving Aztec civilisation. It went...figure of the god-like Aztec ruler himself - Moctezuma...eating of men. But the Aztecs made no apologies for...ruler. The reign of the Aztecs was over. Much of their...to the daughters of Aztec noblemen. From this...
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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 24, 2009

Subjects:

Aztecs--Exhibitions, Soldiers

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

...Bloodthirsty Civilisations in History, Practising Human Sacrifice...Were More Brutal - the Aztecs, or the 300 Europeans...the rich and thriving Aztec civilisation. It went...figure of the god-like Aztec ruler himself -- Moctezuma...eating of men. But the Aztecs made no apologies for...ruler. The reign of the Aztecs was over. Much of their...to the daughters of Aztec noblemen. From this...
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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

...Christendom (Little, Brown). MILESTONES IN AZTEC HISTORY Early 14th century: The Aztecs arrive on the shore of Mexico. The founding...Tenochtitlan 1375: The establishment of the Aztec monarchy 1428: The Aztecs establish themselves as the regional superpower...
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Ancient Aztec Tradition Comes Alive for School Kids

Newspaper article by Naomi Dillon; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 19, 2001

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

Ancient Aztec Tradition Comes Alive for School Kids...has roots dating back to the ancient Aztecs. The Mexican Indian tribe used it to record history and for certain rituals. "Who here...here." Thousands of years ago, the Aztecs used the paper to document what life...
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'Aztec' Crystal Skull a Fake, Says Cardiff Professor

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 8, 2005

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

Aztec Crystal Skull a Fake, Says...have been a relic from the Aztec civilisation in Mexico. However...a wheeled instrument. The Aztecs never used the wheel. Furthermore...defined than softer-looking Aztec crystal relics with which it...in a line of fairy stories: History is littered with fakes and...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: aztecs history

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Vaillant, George Clapp

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1927). At the American Museum of Natural History he became associate curator (1930) and...Mexican culture and for his synthesis of Aztec history, presented in popular form in The Aztecs in Mexico (1944). His other writings include...
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El Salvador

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...The country is divided administratively into 14 departments. History Before the arrival of the Spaniards, El Salvador was inhabited by the Pipils, descendants of the Aztecs and the Toltecs of Mexico, who had arrived in the 12th cent. In...
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Tula , Ancient City, Mexico

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana ( tr. General History of the Things of New Spain ) as well as in documents in indigenous...R. Wauchope (13 vol., 1964 73); M. P. Weaver, The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors (1972); R. A. Diehl...
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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

...begun in 1553 on the site of an Aztec temple) and the Palace of...tourists. The ruins of the Aztec Templo Mayor have been excavated...site of his assassination. History The city has been the metropolis...is built on the ruins of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan , which was begun by the Aztecs c.1345 and razed by Hernan...
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City

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Cities have appeared in diverse cultures, e.g., among the Aztecs, Maya, and Inca and in China and India, Mesopotamia and...Weber, The City (tr. 1958); L. Mumford, The City in History (1961); J. Jacobs, The Economy of Cities (1969); S...

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