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.
| ISBN: | 9781107693562 |
| Publication date: | 15th May 2014 |
| Author: | Inga La Trobe University, Victoria Clendinnen |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 574 pages |
| Series: | Canto Classics |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas: pre-Columbian period |