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| #507477 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1995-02-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.02 x5.43l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 391 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| I myself find the downfall of great civilizations compelling on any terms (Jared Diamond's "Collapse"|By Kitty Johnson|"Aztecs" is a book which changed my life. Here, she says, is what the Aztecs did, without coloring it, without blame, no white man, no red man, just people led by compulsions Clendinnen explores, finds inexplicable, continues to explore, in a dense and gorgeou|From Library Journal|Breakthroughs in historical topics most often come from discoveries of new texts or archaeological finds. Not so in this case. Here, rereading existing indigenous and Spanish documents (particularly the Florentine Codex of de Sahagun), as we
In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent center 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.
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