Author : Deborah L. Nichols
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0816535515
"Rethinking the Aztec Economy provides new perspectives on the society and economy of the ancient Aztecs by focusing on goods and their patterns of circulation"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kenn Hirth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107142776
The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.
Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108894410
In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. The first section focuses on people from an array of social classes - the emperor, a priest, a feather worker, a merchant, a farmer, and a slave - who interacted in the economic, social and religious realms of the Aztec world. In the second section, the authors examine four important life events where the lives of these and others intersected: the birth and naming of a child, market day, a day at court, and a battle. Through the microscopic views of individual types of lives, and interweaving of those lives into the broader Aztec world, Berdan and Smith recreate everyday life in the final years of the Aztec Empire.
Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1009368087
The Aztec Economy provides a synthesis and updated examination of the Aztec economy (1325–1521 AD). It is organized around seven components that recur with other Elements in this series: historic and geographic background, domestic economy, institutional economy, specialization, forms of distribution and commercialization, economic development, and future directions. The Aztec world was complex, hierarchical, and multifaceted, and was in a constant state of demographic growth, recoveries from natural disasters, political alignments and realignments, and aggressive military engagements. The economy was likewise complex and dynamic, and characterized by intensive agriculture, exploitation of non-agricultural resources, utilitarian and luxury manufacturing, wide-scale specialization, merchants, markets, commodity monies, and tribute systems.
Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780884022114
Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History."
Author : Ross Hassig
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806127736
In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, Ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. Because they lacked numerical superiority, faced logistical problems presented by the terrain, and competed with agriculture for manpower, the Aztecs relied as much on threats and the image of power as on military might to subdue enemies and hold them in their orbit. Hassig describes the role of war in the everyday life of the capital, Tenochtitlan: the place of the military in Aztec society; the education and training of young warriors; the organization of the army; the use of weapons and armor; and the nature of combat.
Author : José Luis de Rojas
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813059461
Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire before the Spanish conquest, rivaled any other great city of its time. In Europe, only Paris, Venice, and Constantinople were larger. Cradled in the Valley of Mexico, the city is unique among New World capitals in that it was well-described and chronicled by the conquistadors who subsequently demolished it. This means that, though centuries of redevelopment have frustrated efforts to access the ancient city’s remains, much can be told about its urban landscape, politics, economy, and religion. While Tenochtitlan commands a great deal of attention from archaeologists and Mesoamerican scholars, very little has been written about the city for a non-technical audience in English. In this fascinating book, eminent expert José Luis de Rojas presents an accessible yet authoritative exploration of this famous city--interweaving glimpses into its inhabitants’ daily lives with the broader stories of urbanization, culture, and the rise and fall of the Aztec empire.
Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0195379381
Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.
Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789143616
In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths, and human sacrifice. While the Aztecs are often described as “stone age,” their achievements were remarkable. They constructed lofty temples and produced fine arts in precious stones, gold, and shimmering feathers. They crafted beautiful poetry and studied the sciences. They had schools and libraries, entrepreneurs and money, and a bewildering array of deities and dramatic ceremonies. Based on the latest research and lavishly illustrated, this book reveals the Aztecs to have created a civilization of sophistication and finesse.
Author : Mary G. Hodge
Publisher : Institute for Mesoamerican Studies
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"The Seventeen papers in this collection deal with various aspects of the relationship between economics and the political units which constituted the Aztec state and its main competitor the Tarascan empire...Until recently Aztec studies were dominated by two rather narrow foci...a preoccupation with the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan coupled with neglect of other cities and the rural countryside, and an over-emphasis on the best-known Native and Spanish chronicles which ignored the vast corpus of lesser known but equally important documentary sources...Fortunately a few archaeologists and ethnohistorians, including the contributors to this volume, insisted on expanding the geographical and conceptual parameters of Aztec studies., They also began to employ recent innovative approaches in archaeology, locational geography, economics, political theory, and history in their quest to understand what really happened in central Mexico during the Postclassic period. The result has been some very exciting new perspectives on this fascinating topic."-Richard A. Diehl; Professor of Anthropology; University of Alabama
