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Today the Aztecs seem a remote, alien people. Warlike and bloodthirsty, they are best known as the practitioners of human sacrifice. Yet their creative achievements are impressive: within the space of a hundred years they established the largest empire in Mesoamerican history, and at Tenochtitlan built a vast, shimmering city in a lake, a Venice of the New World whose temple-pyramids, elegant plazas and thronging markets defied the descriptive powers of the conquistadors. Richard Townsend presents the first fully rounded portrait of the Aztecs, integrating military, economic and symbolic approaches to reconcile the apparently contradictory aspects of their culture. He begins with a dramatic narrative of the Spanish conquest and then charts the rise of the Aztecs from humble nomads to empire builders. He shows how war and human sacrifice did indeed act as instruments of terror, but also how their deeper significance lay in the Aztec belief that the shedding of human blood ensured fertility of the land and renewal of the seasons. Chapters on the ancient deities and festival calendar, the New Fire ceremony and sacred rain-mountains, as well as kingship rites, explore this all-pervading theme in Aztec society of physical and spiritual regeneration. The Aztecs ranges from the everyday life of farmers and priests, artisans and kings, to the sinister spying activities of Aztec traders; from the making of chocolate to battle tactics. Recent discoveries from archaeological excavations are interwoven with the latest results from studies of the monuments, Spanish records and illustrated codices to produce a fresh and definitive new history of a remarkable people.

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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500277206
ISBN-13
9780500277201
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170256

Product Key Features

Book Title
Aztecs
Author
Richard F. Townsend
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Latin America / Mexico, Criticism & Theory
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Art, History
Number of Pages
1 Pages

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Item Length
4.8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
9.6in
Item Weight
13 Oz

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Copyright Date
1992
Lccn
91-067301
Dewey Decimal
972/.01
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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