Aztecs by Inga Clendinnen
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 performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.-
What is Life?
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Governing the Commons
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A Mathematician's Apology
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Mortal Questions
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The Discarded Image
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The Invention of Tradition
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On Growth and Form
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The New Knighthood
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English as a Global Language
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The Two Cultures
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Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings
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An Experiment in Criticism
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Mr Tompkins in Paperback
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Morality
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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Think on my Words
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Nations and Nationalism since 1780
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The Golem
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The Spanish Labyrinth
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The Decipherment of Linear B
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The Trial of the Templars
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'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
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Studies in Words
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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older
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Information and the Nature of Reality
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Science and Religion
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Language Death
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The Allegory of Love
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The Life of Isaac Newton
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States and Social Revolutions
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Quantum Physics
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The Conquests of Alexander the Great
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453
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Spenser's Images of Life
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The Sicilian Vespers
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Medieval Women
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The English Language
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Ecological Imperialism
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The Golem at Large
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On Space and Time
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The British Isles
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What Was History?
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Selected Literary Essays
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The Theft of History
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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
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When Things Fell Apart
'… a fascinating, thought-provoking bookAztecs offers a gripping account of an alien society and thus enlarges our apprehension of the sheer diversity of human culture.' London Review of Books
'This is an outstanding book …' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'This is an outstanding book …' The Times Higher Education Supplement
Clendinnen, Inga: - Inga Clendinnen is Emeritus Scholar in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her publications include Aztecs (Cambridge, 1991), Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1999), and Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1579 (second edition, Cambridge, 2003). Her memoir, Tiger's Eye, was published in 2001; her Boyer Lectures, True Stories, in 1999; and a collection of her literary essays, Agamemnon's Kiss, in 2006. Her book on the meeting between the First Fleet and Aboriginal Australians, Dancing with Strangers (Cambridge, 2003), won several awards, including the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107693562 |
| ISBN 10 | 110769356X |
| Title | Aztecs |
| Author | Inga Clendinnen |
| Series | Canto Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2014-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 574 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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