Aztecs

About this book

In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9781107693562

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

May 15, 2014

Pages

574

Weight

18.4 oz

Subject

History