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11 produkter
Aztecs
An Interpretation
Häftad, 2014
330 kr
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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 …
Reading the Holocaust
Häftad, 2002
367 kr
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More than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust, first published in 2002, challenges that bafflement, and …
The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society
Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
Inbunden, 2010
1297 kr
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How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec …
Ambivalent Conquests
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
Häftad, 2003
347 kr
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This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent …
Dancing with Strangers
Europeans and Australians at First Contact
Häftad, 2005
442 kr
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In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. …
The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society
Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
Häftad, 2010
418 kr
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How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec …
Ambivalent Conquests
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
Av Inga Clendinnen, Alan Knight
Inbunden, 2003
1677 kr
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This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent …
Dancing with Strangers
Europeans and Australians at First Contact
Inbunden, 2005
1391 kr
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In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. …
Dancing With Strangers
The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788
Häftad, 2006
181 kr
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In January of 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours; the beach nomads of Australia. "These people mixed with ours," wrote a British observer soon after the landfall, "and all hands danced …
History Question
Who Owns the Past?; Quarterly Essay 23
E-bok, 2006
191 kr
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In The History Question , Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the "objective record of achievement" that the Prime Minister has called for? For …
