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26 produkter
Fifth Sun
A New History of the Aztecs
Häftad, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
253 kr
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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we …
Fifth Sun
A New History of the Aztecs
E-bok, 2019
220 kr
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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we …
Fifth Sun
A New History of the Aztecs
Inbunden, 2020
365 kr
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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we …
Aztec Myths
A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends
Inbunden, 2024
191 kr
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The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish. How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs? …
After the Broken Spears
The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest
Av Josh Anthony, Camilla Townsend
E-bok, 2025
320 kr
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Following Hernando Cortes's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish records do not reflect how Nahuas …
Annals of Native America
How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
Häftad, 2019
638 kr
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For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the …
Annals of Native America
How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
Inbunden, 2016
902 kr
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For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli (SHOO-po-wa-lee), or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters …
Annals of Native America
How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
E-bok, 2016
435 kr
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For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the …
Annals of Native America
How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
E-bok, 2016
435 kr
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For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the …
Fifth Sun
A New History of the Aztecs
E-bok, 2019
220 kr
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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we …
Of the People: Volume II: Since 1865 with Sources
Av Michael McGerr, Camilla Townsend
Häftad
1407 kr
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After the Broken Spears
The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest
Av Camilla Townsend, Camilla Townsend m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1568 kr
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Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish records do not reflect how Nahuas …
After the Broken Spears
The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest
Av Camilla Townsend, Josh Anthony
Häftad, 2026
301 kr
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Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish records do not reflect how Nahuas …
After the Broken Spears
The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest
Av Josh Anthony, Camilla Townsend
E-bok, 2025
320 kr
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Following Hernando Cortes's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish records do not reflect how Nahuas …
Indigenous Life After the Conquest
The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico
Av Caterina Pizzigoni, Camilla Townsend
Häftad, 2021
241 kr
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This book presents a unique set of written records belonging to the De la Cruz family, caciques of Tepemaxalco in the Toluca Valley. Composed in Nahuatl and Spanish and available here both in the original languages and in English translation, this collection of documents opens a window onto the …
Tales of Two Cities
Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
Häftad, 2000
373 kr
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With a common heritage as former colonies of Europe, why did the United States so outstrip Latin America in terms of economic development in the nineteenth century? In this innovative study, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North Americans succeeded because of better attitudes …
How to Be Grateful
An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude
Av Pablo of Texcoco, Frances Karttunen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
159 kr
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A delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks—to our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestorsCenturies before anyone ever thought of keeping a gratitude journal, the Aztecs understood the profound value of being grateful. For generations, specially trained …
Here in This Year
Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley
Inbunden, 2009
877 kr
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Indigenous breadsellers riot over a Spanish monopoly scheme; Spanish authorities plan to remove native people from the city; indigenous people struggle to construct a splendid church; the city's inhabitants fight over elections and witness hangings, epidemics, and eclipses. All this and more a …
Here in This Year
Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley
E-bok, 2009
999 kr
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Indigenous breadsellers riot over a Spanish monopoly scheme; Spanish authorities plan to remove native people from the city; indigenous people struggle to construct a splendid church; the city's inhabitants fight over elections and witness hangings, epidemics, and eclipses. All this and more a …
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
The American Portraits Series
Häftad, 2005
216 kr
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Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma , differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading …
American Indian History
A Documentary Reader
Häftad, 2009
456 kr
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This Reader from the Uncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history. Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American pastIncludes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular textsProvides …
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
Av Camilla Townsend, Nicky Kay Michael
Häftad, 2023
331 kr
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The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally to the territory that became Oklahoma. These …
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
Av Camilla Townsend, Nicky Kay Michael
Inbunden, 2023
767 kr
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The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally to the territory that became Oklahoma. These …
El quinto sol
Una historia diferente de los aztecas
E-bok, 2021
136 kr
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El quinto sol es el que iluminó a los aztecas, el que los acompañó en su peregrinar desde la mítica Aztlán hasta el islote que se convertiría en Tenochtitlan, el que inspiró su mitología y por ello muchos de sus relatos fundacionales, el que atestiguó cómo un astuto enemigo logró someterlos. Los …
Malintzin's Choices
An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico
Häftad, 2006
321 kr
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Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortes in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. 'Malintzin', at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her dona Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As …
