History of Mexico. 1883-88
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
Published: 1886
Total Pages: 822
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosts
Aztecs, Moors, and Christians
Author: Max Harris
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0292779291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances to massive street theatre lasting several days. The festival tradition officially celebrates the triumph of Spanish Catholicism over its enemies, yet this does not explain its persistence for more than five hundred years nor its widespread diffusion. In this insightful book, Max Harris seeks to understand Mexicans' "puzzling and enduring passion" for festivals of moros y cristianos. He begins by tracing the performances' roots in medieval Spain and showing how they came to be superimposed on the mock battles that had been a part of pre-contact Aztec calendar rituals. Then using James Scott's distinction between "public" and "hidden transcripts," he reveals how, in the hands of folk and indigenous performers, these spectacles of conquest became prophecies of the eventual reconquest of Mexico by the defeated Aztec peoples. Even today, as lively descriptions of current festivals make plain, they remain a remarkably sophisticated vehicle for the communal expression of dissent.
The Mexican Mission
Author: Ryan Dominic Crewe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1108492541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a social history of the Mexican mission enterprise, emphasizing the centrality of indigenous politics, economics, and demographic catastrophe.
History of Mexico: 1521-1600
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-08-28
Total Pages: 909
ISBN-13: 9004346252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.
... History of Mexico ...
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 818
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
Author: Barbara E. Mundy
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0292766564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 1325, the Aztecs founded their capital city Tenochtitlan, which grew to be one of the world's largest cities before it was violently destroyed in 1521 by conquistadors from Spain and their indigenous allies. Re-christened and reoccupied by the Spanish conquerors as Mexico City, it became the pivot of global trade linking Europe and Asia in the 17th century, and one of the modern world's most populous metropolitan areas. However, the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan and its people did not entirely disappear when the Spanish conquistadors destroyed it. By reorienting Mexico City-Tenochtitlan as a colonial capital and indigenous city, Mundy demonstrates its continuity across time. Using maps, manuscripts, and artworks, she draws out two themes: the struggle for power by indigenous city rulers and the management and manipulation of local ecology, especially water, that was necessary to maintain the city's sacred character. What emerges is the story of a city-within-a city that continues to this day"--
Servants of the Dynasty
Author: Anne Walthall
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-06-10
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0520941519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women.
The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World
Author: David A. Graff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 854
ISBN-13: 1108901190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies – including gunpowder and the earliest firearms – by land and sea.
The Lords of Tetzcoco
Author: Bradley Benton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1107190584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines how the indigenous nobility of Tetzcoco navigated the tumult of Spanish conquest and early colonialism.
