Mexico: Volume 1, From the Beginning to the Spanish ConquestCambridge University Press, 23. sept 2002 - 254 pages Mexico is a three volume general history of Mexico, comprising (I) the PreConquest period to 1521, (II) the Colonial period from 1521 to 1821, and (III, forthcoming) the National period from 1821-present. These books give a comprehensive narrative and analysis of Mexican history, focusing especially on political, economic, and social organization. Balancing both a 'bottom-up'(popular) and a 'top-down' (elite) perspective, they seek, where possible, to locate Mexico within broader, comparative patterns of historical change and conflict. |
Contents
MESOAMERICAN | 1 |
I The First Mesoamericans | 5 |
II Dates and Places | 25 |
III The Olmecs | 31 |
Classic Mesoamerica | 50 |
I Teotihuacan | 52 |
II Zapotec and Maya | 79 |
III The Classic Collapse | 102 |
II The Coming of the Aztecs | 132 |
III The Aztec Revolution in Government | 143 |
IV The Aztec Empire | 163 |
V Aztec Political Economy | 177 |
SPAIN AND THE CONQUEST | 193 |
II The Conquest of Mexico | 221 |
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Common terms and phrases
agriculture America Ancient Kingdoms Ancient Maya Ancient Mesoamerica Aztec Arrangement Aztec empire Bernal Blanton Brundage Cannibals and Kings capitalism century ceremonial centres Chichén chiefdoms chiefs Cholula city's Classic Maya colonial communities Conquest of Mexico conquistadors Conrad and Demarest Cortés's cult culture Davies developed Díaz Diehl ecological economic elite evidence favour feudal Flannery Gulf Hassig heartland Hernán Cortés Huitzilopochtli human Indian influence Kaminaljuyú Kingdoms of Mexico labour later Law and Politics Maya Civilization Maya Collapse Maya lowlands Mesoamerica Mexican migrants military Moctezuma Monte Albán numbers obsidian offered peasant perhaps Petén pochteca population growth Postclassic production pubd Rain of Darts region Religion and Empire religious ritual rival rulers sacrifice San Lorenzo secular social society Spaniards Spanish state-building state-formation stratification Tarascan Tenochtitlán Teotihuacan Tepanec Texcoco theocratic Tikal tion tlatoani Tlaxcala Tlaxcalans Toltec trade tribute Tula Tula's Valley of Mexico Valley of Oaxaca warfare Yucatán Zapotec
References to this book
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 J. H. Elliott No preview available - 2006 |