Author: Miriam Melton-Villanueva
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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This ethnohistory uses colonial-era native-language texts written by Nahuas to construct history from the indigenous point of view. The book offers the first internal ethnographic view of central Mexican indigenous communities in the critical time of independence, when modern Mexican Spanish developed its unique character, founded on indigenous concepts of space, time, and grammar. The Aztecs at Independence opens a window into the cultural life of writers, leaders, and worshippers--Nahua women and men in the midst of creating a vibrant community.
Author: Enrique Florescano
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292786549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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In Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico, noted Mexican scholar Enrique Florescano’s Memoria mexicana becomes available for the first time in English. A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history. Original in perspective and broad in scope, ranging from the Aztec concept of the world and history to the ideas of independence, this book should appeal to a wide readership.
Author: Florescano Enrique
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780292766983
Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Sunita Apte
Publisher: C. Press/F. Watts Trade
ISBN: 9780531252277
Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Provides information about the Aztec empire, discussing Tenochtitlán, daily life, ruins, and other related topics.
Author: Gary Jennings
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 0765392186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues Juan Rios comes from a long line of Aztec warriors. Slave to a Spanish gun-maker, he becomes the finest gunsmith and sharpshooter in colonial Mexico. But Juan has a secret life as the revolucion's #1 gun-runner. Juan falls for the beautiful Maria, a beautiful writer and fearless revolucionaria whose dream of freedom is a liability for them both. The hard-drinking, womanizing, con-man Luis becomes their last hope against the rack, the stake, and the blood-stained torture dungeons of the Inquisition. Aztec Fire sweeps readers on a perilous journey from the fabled ruins of ancient Tula to the slave-labor galleons of "the Manila Run" to a South Seas jungle island teeming with crocodiles, snakes, and blood-crazed cannibals. When Juan and his friends finally reach home, they find their country in flames, struggling against its hated Spanish oppressors. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: R. Conrad Stein
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN: 9781599350547
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Since Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztec empire in the sixteenth century, Mexico had been ruled by the kingdom of Spain. They treated the once mighty land as a colony, exploiting its people and tightly controlling the affairs of the nation to keep it from growing strong. Any talk of freedom or revolution was strictly barred by law. But as the philosophical movement called the Enlightenment swept through Europe, and revolutions toppled oppressive monarchies in America and France, the people of Mexico began to think of driving out the Spanish and establishing their own country as a very real possibility. It was a priest from a distant and tiny parish named Father Manuel Hidalgo who started Mexico's War of Independence, leading an ever-growing army of Mexican people against the massive force of the Spanish army. It was Jose Maria Morelos, another priest and a onetime student of Hidalgo, who took up the reins of the revolution when Hidalgo could no longer lead the people. The Spanish were not about to give up their prized colony without a fight though, and they retaliated against the revolutionaries with brutal viciousness. Before long, all of Mexico was wrapped in a war that would decide the future of two nations. Book jacket.
Author: Marc Clint
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1600146260
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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"Engaging images accompany information about Aztec warriors. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author: James D. Atwater
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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A brief history of Mexico is the background for the life of the Indian who became President, instituted many reforms, and led his country's struggle for independence from Europe.
Author: Charles Gibson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804701969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Here is the complete history of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, one of the two most important religious groups in the Spanish empire in America, from the Conquest to Independence in the early nineteenth century. Based upon ten years of research, this study focuses on the effect if Spanish institutions on Indian life at the local level.
Author: Frances F. Berdan
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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This case study is about the Aztecs of Central Mexico, a people who dominated a vast area of what is now Mexico by the time the Spanish conquistadors arrived in A.D. 1519, but who had humble beginnings as despised nomads. The story of the confrontation and the defeat of the Aztecs by the small force of Spaniards led by Hernan Cortes is told in the last chapter.
