The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction

by Davíd Carrasco

Book Overview

This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare. Dav d Carrasco looks beyond Spanish accounts that have colored much of the Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195379381
• ISBN13: 9780195379389
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.7"