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Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521518116
A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century.
Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Aztecs
ISBN : OCLC:431194932
Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139788663
How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the forces that moved the world and the heavens. Subsequent essays explore the survival of Yucatec Maya culture in the face of Spanish conquest and colonisation, the insidious corruption of an austere ideology translated into dangerously novel circumstances, and the multiple paths to the sacred constructed by 'defeated' populations in sixteenth-century Mexico. The collection ends with Clendinnen's transition to the colonial history of her own country: a close and loving reading of the 1841 expedition journal of George Augustus Robinson, appointed 'Protector of Aborigines' in the Port Philip District of Australia.
Author : Gilbert M. Joseph,Timothy J. Henderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822384090
The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Méxicos—the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection offers a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Mexico—including its difficult, uneven modernization; the ways the country has been profoundly shaped not only by Mexicans but also by those outside its borders; and the extraordinary economic, political, and ideological power of the Roman Catholic Church. The book looks at what underlies the chronic instability, violence, and economic turmoil that have characterized periods of Mexico’s history while it also celebrates the country’s rich cultural heritage. A diverse collection of more than eighty selections, The Mexico Reader brings together poetry, folklore, fiction, polemics, photoessays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, satire, and scholarly writing. Many pieces are by Mexicans, and a substantial number appear for the first time in English. Works by Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes are included along with pieces about such well-known figures as the larger-than-life revolutionary leaders Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata; there is also a comminiqué from a more recent rebel, Subcomandante Marcos. At the same time, the book highlights the perspectives of many others—indigenous peoples, women, politicians, patriots, artists, soldiers, rebels, priests, workers, peasants, foreign diplomats, and travelers. The Mexico Reader explores what it means to be Mexican, tracing the history of Mexico from pre-Columbian times through the country’s epic revolution (1910–17) to the present day. The materials relating to the latter half of the twentieth century focus on the contradictions and costs of postrevolutionary modernization, the rise of civil society, and the dynamic cross-cultural zone marked by the two thousand-mile Mexico-U.S. border. The editors have divided the book into several sections organized roughly in chronological order and have provided brief historical contexts for each section. They have also furnished a lengthy list of resources about Mexico, including websites and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Ansorge Josef Teboho
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190245542
The advent of information technology ushered in new forms of political power. Machines play crucial roles in how states see, understand, and act, and scrutiny of these processes lies at the heart of Identify and Sort. It frames debates about IT in world politics, explaining how industrial sorting systems employed by political actors are renegotiating the social contract between individuals and the state. Ansorge takes the reader on a global expedition that tracks the historical antecedents of digital power, from Aztec and Inca rituals, to medieval filing systems, to a grandiose 1930s design for a German registry, to the databases used in US presidential campaigns and how IT is deployed in war and post-conflict reconstruction. Databases are also deployed virtually to record and act upon people who have no publicly visible identification or group consciousness; modern wars and election campaigns are fought on this individualised terrain. The uneven distribution of these technical capacities engenders inequality of access, while rights discourses and legal frameworks forged in an era of mass group discrimination, subjugation, and public resistance lag behind these micro-targeting practices. Rich in examples and ideas, Identify and Sort develops an analytical model and vocabulary to explain the functions and limits of digital power in world politics.
Author : Matthew Wilhelm Kapell,Andrew B.R. Elliott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623563875
Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation of history. The collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with, play with, recreate, subvert, reverse and direct the historical past, and what effect this has on the ways in which we go about constructing the present or imagining a future. What can World War Two strategy games teach us about the reality of this complex and multifaceted period? Do the possibilities of playing with the past change the way we understand history? If we embody a colonialist's perspective to conquer 'primitive' tribes in Colonization, does this privilege a distinct way of viewing history as benevolent intervention over imperialist expansion? The fusion of these two fields allows the editors to pose new questions about the ways in which gamers interact with their game worlds. Drawing these threads together, the collection concludes by asking whether digital games - which represent history or historical change - alter the way we, today, understand history itself.
Author : Arnold J. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052177702X
Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.
Author : Al Sandine
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476622224
In 1519, a few hundred Europeans led by Hernán Cortés sailed from Cuba to the Mexican mainland, where they encountered representatives of the Aztec Empire. Their Iberian history, culture and religion, and their experience in the Greater Antilles made conquest and riches the aim of these adventurers. They regarded themselves as heroes in a romantic crusade of good against evil. Each member of the expedition sought to acquire precious metals and to become a lord of enslaved native labor. Their horses and steel swords, aided by native disunity and susceptibility to Old World diseases, ensured their success. This analysis of the conquest of Mexico stands in contrast to previous narratives that either reduce the conquest to a contest between Cortés and Montezuma, or describe a near miraculous victory of European ingenuity and Western values over Indian superstition and savagery. The author re-frames the clash of civilizations in New World prehistory that left inhabitants at a disadvantage.
Author : Lawrence Stone,A. L. Beier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521364841
Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.
Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521527317
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Author : Siep Stuurman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674977518
For much of history, strangers were seen as barbarians, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of common humanity had to be invented. Drawing on global thinkers, Siep Stuurman traces ideas of equality and difference across continents and civilizations, from antiquity to present-day debates about human rights and the “clash of civilizations.”
Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107693562
Recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards.
Author : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195330830
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
Author : Andrew Holt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1679 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216172253
An indispensable resource for readers investigating how religion has influenced societies and cultures, this three-volume encyclopedia assesses and synthesizes the many ways in which religious faith has shaped societies from the ancient world to today. Each volume of the set focuses on a different era of world history, ranging through the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds. Every volume is filled with essays that focus on religious themes from different geographical regions. For example, volume one includes essays considering religion in ancient Rome, while volume three features essays focused on religion in modern Africa. This accessible layout makes it easy for readers to learn more about the ways that religion and society have intersected over the centuries, as well as specific religious trends, events, and milestones in a particular era and place in world history. Taken as a a whole, this ambitious and wide-ranging work gathers more than 500 essays from more than 150 scholars who share their expertise and knowledge about religious faiths, tenets, people, places, and events that have influenced the development of civilization over the course of recorded human history.
Author : Frances F. Berdan,Michael E. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521516365
This book offers views of Aztec lives and their interactions in rituals, markets, courts, and on the battlefield.
