Caroline Dodds Pennock

Broschiertes Buch

On Savage Shores

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Beschreibung

A landmark work by the UK's only Aztec historian that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by exploring how the great civilisations of the Americas - the Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - discovered Europe

Autor

Caroline Dodds Pennock is a Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield and the UK's only Aztec historian. Her first book, BONDS OF BLOOD: GENDER, LIFECYCLE AND SACRIFICE IN AZTEC CULTURE (Palgrave Macmillan) won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize for 2008. She has appeared on TV programmes for broadcasters including the BBC, the Smithsonian Channel and Netflix, and has acted as a named historical consultant for several TV projects, as well as writing for popular publications including Scientific American, BBC History Magazine, BBC World Histories, BBC Knowledge Magazine and History Today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781474616928
• ISBN-10: 1474616925
• Artikelnr.: 67751230