Texcoco : prehispanic and colonial perspectives /

"Texcoco : Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major Indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with...

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Main Author: Lee, Jongsoo, 1964- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Brokaw, Galen, 1966- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Texcocan Studies Past and Present / Jongsoo Lee and Galen Brokaw
  • 2. Improving Western Historiography of Texcoco / Jerome A. Offner
  • 3. The Aztec Triple Alliance : a Colonial Transformation of the Pre-Hispanic Political and Tributary System / Jongsoo Lee
  • 4. Polygyny as a Key to Preconquest Politics : The Tetzcocan Example / Camilla Townsend
  • 5. Texcoco's Subordinate Lords in the Mapa Quinatzin and Beyond / Lori Boornazian Diel
  • 6. Evidence of Acolhua Science in Pictorial Land Records / Barbara J. Williams and Janice K. Pierce
  • 7. Don Carlos de Texcoco and the Universal Rights of Emperor Carlos V / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
  • 8. Beyond the Burnt Stake : The Rule of Don Antonio Pimentel Tlahuitoltzin in Tetzcoco, 1540/1545 / Bradley Benton
  • 9. The Alva Ixtlilxochitl Brothers and the Nahua Intellectual Community / Amber Brian
  • 10. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Texcocan Dynasty : Nobility, Genealogy, and Historiography / Pablo Garcia Loaeza
  • 11. The Re-invented Man-God of Colonial Texcoco : Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Nezahualcoyotl / Leisa Kauffmann.