R. Tripp Evans

Romancing the Maya

Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915

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Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780292722217
• ISBN-10: 0292722214
• Artikelnr.: 26488383

Autorenporträt

By R. Tripp Evans

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1. The Second Discovery of America
* 2. Incidents of Transcription: American Antiquity in the Work of
Stephens and Catherwood
* 3. Joseph Smith and the Archaeology of Revelation
* 4. The Toltec Lens of Désiré Charnay
* 5. Bordering on the Magnificent: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in
the Kingdom of Móo
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index