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Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, Ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. Because they lacked numerical sup...
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Fire And Blood: A History Of Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Mexico's history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and spectacular cultural achievements. A ...
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of...
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Sons of the Sierra: Juárez, Díaz, and the People of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, 1855-1920 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The period following Mexico's war with the United States in 1847 was characterized by violent conflicts, as liberal and conservative factions bat...
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History of the Indies of New Spain
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Fray Diego Duran’s History of the Indians of New Spain, newly translated by Doris Heyden, is a vivid evocation of the Aztec world before the Spa...
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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $47.50 - Original price $47.50Original price $47.50$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native America...
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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In November 1519, Hernando CortÃ(c)s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. Tha...
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Azteca /Aztec
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Hacia 1530, el emperador Carlos pide al obispo de México que le proporcione información sobre la vida y costumbres de los indios americanos; el o...
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The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a un...
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Daily Life of the Aztecs
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Tireless speech-makers and lovers of verse, the ancient Aztecs were also prodigious record keepers, using a pictographic system to keep records o...
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The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec ...
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of...
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Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over m...
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Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over m...
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Exposing the Maya: Early Archaeological Photography in the Americas
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A compelling account of the early period of expeditionary archaeology and photography told through the words and works of six pioneersExposing the ...
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Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texup...
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Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Andr s Canch became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucat n, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert...
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The Fifteenth Month: Aztec History in the Rituals of Panquetzaliztli
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Mexica (Aztecs) used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months, with each month dedicated to a specific god in their pantheon and celebrated...
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The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec: A Painted History from the Northern Mixteca
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /For centuries, indigenous rulers of Mesoamerica commissioned elaborate pictorial histories to maintain their claims to power, land, and privilege--...
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Guardians of Idolatry: Gods, Demons, and Priests in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón's Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In 1629, Catholic priest Hernando Ruiz de Alarc n produced the Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live among the Indians Native to Th...
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Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /This volume brings together an international team of contributors to reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico (ca. 300 B.C.-A....
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Contesting the Borderlands: Interviews on the Early Southwest
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French...
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Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1527-1700
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Spanish colonization of Latin America in the sixteenth century continues to provoke scholarly debate. Spanish missionaries employed various strate...
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Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1522-1540
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lop...
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