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The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
2015 University of Texas Press ;ISBN: 9780292766563 ;ISBN: 0292766564 ;EISBN: 9780292766570 ;EISBN: 0292766572 ;EISBN: 9780292766587 ;EISBN: 0292766580 ;DOI: 10.7560/766563 ;OCLC: 910916534 ;LCCallNum: F1386.3.M86 2015
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Title:
The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
Author:
Mundy, Barbara E
Subjects:
16th century
;
Architecture
;
Architecture-Mexico-Mexico City-History
;
Art & Art History
;
Aztecs
;
Aztecs-Mexico-Mexico City-History
;
Caribbean & Latin American
;
Environmental conditions
;
HISTORY
;
Latin America
;
Mexico
;
Mexico City
;
Mexico City (Mexico)
;
Mexico City (Mexico)-Environmental conditions
;
Mexico City (Mexico)-History-16th century
;
Mexico City (Mexico)-History-To 1519
;
Mexico City (Mexico)-
Social
life and customs
;
Nahuas
;
Nahuas-Mexico-Mexico City-History
;
Power (
Social
sciences
)
;
Power (
Social
sciences
)-Mexico-Mexico City-History
;
Sacred space
;
Sacred space-Mexico-Mexico City-History
;
Social
life and customs
;
To 1519
;
Water-supply
;
Water-supply-Mexico-Mexico City-History
Description:
The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his followers conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and razed to the ground." But was it?Drawing on period representations of the city in sculptures, texts, and maps, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City builds a convincing case that this global capital remained, through the sixteenth century, very much an Amerindian city. Barbara E. Mundy foregrounds the role the city's indigenous peoples, the Nahua, played in shaping Mexico City through the construction of permanent architecture and engagement in ceremonial actions. She demonstrates that the Aztec ruling elites, who retained power even after the conquest, were instrumental in building and then rebuilding the city. Mundy shows how the Nahua entered into mutually advantageous alliances with the Franciscans to maintain the city's sacred nodes. She also focuses on the practical and symbolic role of the city's extraordinary waterworks—the product of a massive ecological manipulation begun in the fifteenth century—to reveal how the Nahua struggled to maintain control of water resources in early Mexico City.
Related Titles:
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
Publisher:
Austin: University of Texas Press
Creation Date:
2015
Format:
256
Language:
English
Identifier:
ISBN: 9780292766563
ISBN: 0292766564
EISBN: 9780292766570
EISBN: 0292766572
EISBN: 9780292766587
EISBN: 0292766580
DOI: 10.7560/766563
OCLC: 910916534
LCCallNum: F1386.3.M86 2015
Source:
Ebook Central Academic Complete
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