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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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"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 current debates that derive from differences in the way scholars view abundant and diverse iconographic and alphabetic sources, and proposes a new look at Texcocan history and culture from different academic disciplines. Contributors address some of the most pressing issues in Texcocan studies and bring new ones to light: the role of Texcoco in the Aztec empire, the construction and transformation of Prehispanic history in the colonial period, the continuity and transformation of indigenous culture and politics after the conquest, and the nature and importance of iconographic and alphabetic texts that originated in this city-state, such as the Codex Xolotl, the Mapa Quinatzin, and Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's chronicles. Multiple scholarly perspectives and methodological approaches offer alternative paradigms of research and open a needed dialogue among disciplines--social, political, literary, and art history, as well as the history of science. This comprehensive overview of Prehispanic and colonial Texcoco will be of interest to Mesoamerican scholars in the social sciences and humanities"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Texcoco de Mora (Mexico) -- History.
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Texcoco de Mora (Mexico) -- History -- Sources.
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Texcoco de Mora (Mexico) -- Social life and customs.
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Indians of Mexico -- Texcoco de Mora -- History.
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Indians of Mexico. |
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History. |
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Aztecs -- Mexico -- Texcoco de Mora -- History.
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Aztecs. |
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Mexico -- Texcoco de Mora. |
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Colonists -- Mexico -- Texcoco de Mora -- History.
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Colonists. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Sources.
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Lee, Jongsoo, 1964- editor.
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Lee, Jongsoo, 1964-
Texcocan studies past and present.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Texcoco 9781607322832 (DLC) 2013035023 (OCoLC)852222301 |
| ISBN |
9781607322849 (electronic book) |
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1607322846 (electronic book) |
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9781492013310 (electronic book) |
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1492013315 (electronic book) |
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9781492013297 (electronic book) |
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1492013293 (electronic book) |
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9781607322832 |
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1607322838 |
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