Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

Informationen zum Autor By Barbara E. Mundy Klappentext Presenting a radically new interpretation that reorients Spanish-centric historiography and recognizes indigenous agency, this visually compelling book maps the continuities between Aztec Tenochtitlan and sixteenth-century Mexico City. Zusammenfassung Presenting a radically new interpretation that reorients Spanish-centric historiography and recognizes indigenous agency, this visually compelling book maps the continuities between Aztec Tenochtitlan and sixteenth-century Mexico City. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Spelling and TranslationsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Water and the Sacred CityChapter 3: The Tlatoani in TenochtitlanChapter 4: The City in the Conquest's WakeChapter 5: Huanitzin Recenters the CityChapter 6: Forgetting TenochtitlanChapter 7: Place-Names in Mexico-TenochtitlanChapter 8: Axes in the CityChapter 9: Water and Altepetl in the Late Sixteenth-Century CityChapter 10: Remembering TenochtitlanNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Barbara E. Mundy
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781477317136
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1713-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous