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The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.
Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826334053
The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.
Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0190673060
Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0826334059
The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.
Author : William M. Ferguson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826328014
William Ferguson's classic photographic portrayal of the major pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras is now available from UNM Press in a completely revised edition. Magnificent aerial and ground photographs give both armchair and actual visitors unparalleled views of fifty-one ancient cities. The restored areas of each site and their interesting and exotic features are shown within each group of ruins. The authors have thoroughly revised the text for this new edition, and they have added over 30 new photographs and illustrations as well as a completely new chapter by Richard E. W. Adams on regional states and empires in ancient Mesoamerica. Over a span of three thousand years between 1500 B.C. and A.D. 1500 great civilizations, including the Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Toltec, Zapotec, and Aztec, flourished, waned, and died in Mesoamerica. These indigenous cultures of Mexico and Central America are brought to life in Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities through stunning color photographs. The authors include the most recent research and most widely accepted theoretical perspectives on Mesoamerican civilizations. Ideal for the general reader as well as scholars of Mesoamerica, this volume makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Americas.
Author : Clark Colahan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0816545987
Sor María de Agreda (1602-65) was a Spanish nun and visionary who is best known as the author of the widely read biography of the Virgin Mary, The Mystical City of God, and as the missionary who "bilocated" to the American Southwest, reportedly appearing to Indians there without ever leaving Spain. Her role as advisor to King Philip IV contributed further to her legend. Clark Colahan now offers the first major study of Sor María's writings, including translations of two previously unpublished works: Face of the Earth and Map of the Spheres and the first half of her Report to Father Manero, in which she reflects on her bilocation.
Author : Brent E. Metz
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 082633881X
Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a 36-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures. From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti' Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity.
Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521196655
A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Author : Teresa Ortiz
Publisher : Epica
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 161228907X
Marco Polo, the first European to travel to China and return to write about his adventures, was born in Venice in 1254. Marco's father had left on a journey to Asia before the boy was born. Marco did not see his father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, until fifteen years later. In 1271 the three Polos left Venice and headed for the court of Kublai Khan in eastern China. The journey took them more than three years—they arrived in 1275. Marco Polo became a favorite of the Great Khan, and was sent on important missions all over the Mongol Empire. Marco and his father and uncle served Kublai Khan for 17 years. When they returned to Venice in 1295, Marco became the captain of a merchant ship and was captured and imprisoned in Genoa. While in prison he and another prisoner who was a writer of romances wrote the story of Marco Polo's adventures.
Author : John Paul Zronik
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778724346
Learn about the Spanish conqueror's invasion of Mexico.