Mexican history: a primary source reader

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Full title :Mexican history : a primary source reader / edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Edward W. Osowski, Susie S. Porter.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Westview Press
Place of Publication:Boulder, CO
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 456 Seiten : : Illustrationen, Karten ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780813343341, 0813343348
oclc:ocn741888450
LC Classification:F1203
Dewey Decimal:972

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) -- 7. The Mixtec map of San Pedro Teozacoalco (1580) -- Image : the Mixtec map of San Pedro Teozacoalco -- 8. The urban zoning of Maya social class in the Yucatán (1566) -- 9. The Nomadic Seris of the northern desert (1645).

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