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  • The Lords of Tetzcoco

    The Transformation of Indigenous Rule in Postconquest Central Mexico

    by Bradley Benton ...
    Series Book 104 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    Tetzcoco was one of the most important cities of the pre-Hispanic Aztec Empire. When the Spaniards arrived in 1519, the indigenous hereditary nobles that governed Tetzcoco faced both opportunities and challenges, and were forced to adapt from the very moment of contact. This book examines how the city's nobility navigated this tumultuous period of conquest and colonialism, and negotiated a place ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • History of the Chichimeca Nation

    Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Seventeenth-Century Chronicle of Ancient Mexico

    by Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, Peter B. Villella, Pablo García Loaeza ...
    A descendant of both Spanish settlers and Nahua (Aztec) rulers, Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578–1650) was an avid collector of indigenous pictorial and alphabetic texts and a prodigious chronicler of the history of pre-conquest and conquest-era Mexico. His magnum opus, here for the first time in English translation, is one of the liveliest, most accessible, and most influential ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Native Conquistador

    Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain

    Edited by Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, Pablo García Loaeza ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    For many years, scholars of the conquest worked to shift focus away from the Spanish perspective and bring attention to the often-ignored voices and viewpoints of the Indians. But recent work that highlights the “Indian conquistadors” has forced scholars to reexamine the simple categories of conqueror and subject and to acknowledge the seemingly contradictory roles assumed by native peoples who ... Read more

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    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition

    The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

    by Miguel Leon-Portilla ...
    For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants ... Read more

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  • Empire's Workshop

    Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

    by Greg Grandin ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    “A pathbreaking work about how policies forged in blood and fire in Latin America were then exported to every corner of the globe. This brilliant and up-to-the-minute new edition is absolutely crucial to understanding our perilous present.” —Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineEmpire's Workshop is the classic analysis of Latin America’s role as proving ground for imperial US strategies and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

    by Michael D. Coe, Rex Koontz ...
    “Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library JournalMichael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz.The seventh edition incorporates new ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire

    British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

    by Alaine Low, Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on ... Read more

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  • Cangalli An American Company Searches for an Ancient River of Gold

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  • Merchant Adventurers

    The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England

    by James Evans ...
    A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement.In the spring of 1553 three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters. The scale of their ambition was breathtaking. Drawing on the latest navigational science and the new spirit of enterprise and discovery sweeping the Tudor capital, they sought a northern passage to ... Read more

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  • Ambivalent Conquests

    Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570

    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    Series Book 61 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking ... Read more

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    CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleAbandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but later braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some wentback quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America - against a backdrop of civil war ... Read more

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