Inga Clendinnen (Victoria La Trobe University)

Broschiertes Buch

Aztecs

Beschreibung

Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies.

Autor

Inga Clendinnen is a distinguished historian of the Spanish encounters with Aztec and Maya indians of sixteenth-century America. Her Reading the Holocaust was named a New York Times best book of the year and awarded the NSW Premier's General History Award in 1999. Clendinnen's ABC Boyer Lectures, True Stories, were published in 2000, as was her award-winning memoir, Tiger's Eye. In 2003 Dancing With Strangers attracted wide critical acclaim. Her latest book is Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays.

Produktdetails

• Canto Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9781107693562
• ISBN-10: 110769356X
• Artikelnr.: 40549054