Screen LibraryMexican history：a primary source reader
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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Westview Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Boulder, CO |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxi, 456 p.: ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780813343341 (alk. paper) 0813343348 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K731 |
| CLC: | K731.0 |
| Call Number: | K731.0/M611 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Central themes -- Map : the Viceroyalty of New Spain 1786-1821 -- Map : states of modern Mexico -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Pre-Columbian Mexico (200-1519 CE) -- 1. Copán and Teotihuacan : shared culture across a great distance (200-900 CE) -- Image : Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, detail showing talud-tablero and the rain god -- Image : painted vessel from the Margarita tomb, Copán, in the Teotihuacan style -- 2. The Popol Vuh ("the community book") : the mythic origins of the Quiché Maya (1554-1558) -- 3. Mayan royalty and writing (c. 667 CE) -- Image : Mayan king Hanab-Pakal's sarcophagus lid -- 4. The origin of the Nahuas and the birth of the Fifth Sun (1596) -- 5. A treasury of Mexica power and gender (c. 1541-1542) -- Image : tribute list from Tochtepec -- Image : midwife and newborn babies -- Image : education of children and marriage ceremony -- 6. Markets and temples in the city of Tenochtitlan (1519). |