After The Fifth Sun
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Fifth Sun
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Author : Camilla Townsend
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Fifth Sun written by Camilla Townsend and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
After The Fifth Sun
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Author : James W. Russell
language : en
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1994
After The Fifth Sun written by James W. Russell and has been published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Social Science categories.
Concise supplemental book for the social stratification course in sociology. May also be appropriate as a supplement in a race relations course.
Fifth Sun
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Author : Camilla Townsend
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-04
Fifth Sun written by Camilla Townsend and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-04 with History categories.
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the Roman alphabet and, unbeknownst to the newcomers, they used it to write detailed histories in their own language of Nahuatl. Until recently, these sources remained obscure, only partially translated, and rarely consulted by scholars. For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves. Camilla Townsend presents an accessible and humanized depiction of these native Mexicans, rather than seeing them as the exotic, bloody figures of European stereotypes. The conquest, in this work, is neither an apocalyptic moment, nor an origin story launching Mexicans into existence. The Mexica people had a history of their own long before the Europeans arrived and did not simply capitulate to Spanish culture and colonization. Instead, they realigned their political allegiances, accommodated new obligations, adopted new technologies, and endured. This engaging revisionist history of the Aztecs, told through their own words, explores the experience of a once-powerful people facing the trauma of conquest and finding ways to survive, offering an empathetic interpretation for experts and non-specialists alike.
The Fifth Sun
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Author : T.E. Matt
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2004-10-11
The Fifth Sun written by T.E. Matt and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-11 with Fiction categories.
Nothing in their collective experience could have prepared Matthew and Gina Tanner for the challenges that awaited them.Their work on the Giza Plateau destroyed, they are plucked by fate from the brink of professional oblivion, and whisked beyond time and reality.There, they marvel at the wonders of long forgotten ages, suffer the agonies of ancient civilizations as they are shattered by global catastrophes, and battle to save the future of humanity from the darkness of its despair following the end of the present world age.
Dreaming The Maya Fifth Sun
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Author : Leonide Martin
language : en
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
Release Date : 2006-06
Dreaming The Maya Fifth Sun written by Leonide Martin and has been published by Infinity Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06 with Fiction categories.
Jana's recurring dream opens portals to ancient Maya worlds, where the priestess Yalucha summons her to fulfill a prophetic mission critical to 2012, opposed by shamanic forces and her husband.
Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma
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Author : Camilla Townsend
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2005-09-07
Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma written by Camilla Townsend and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
The Fifth Sun
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Author : Burr Cartwright Brundage
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-02-19
The Fifth Sun written by Burr Cartwright Brundage and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-19 with Religion categories.
The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it—Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird. Burr Cartwright Brundage explores the myths behind these and others in the Aztec pantheon in a way that illuminates both the human and the divine in Aztec life. The cult of human sacrifice is a pervasive theme in this study. It is a concept that permeated Aztec mythology and was the central preoccupation of the aggressive Aztec state. Another particularly interesting belief explored here is the “mask pool,” whereby gods could exchange regalia and, thus, identities. This vivid and eminently readable study also covers the use of hallucinogens; cannibalism; the calendars of ancient Mexico; tlachtli, the life-and-death ball game; the flower wars; divine transfiguration; and the evolution of the war god of the Mexica. A splendid introduction to Aztec religion, The Fifth Sun also contains insights for specialists in ethnohistory, mythology, and religion.
Malinalli Of The Fifth Sun
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Author : Helen Heightsman Gordon
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-12
Malinalli Of The Fifth Sun written by Helen Heightsman Gordon and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12 with Fiction categories.
The words of her father echo in a young girl's head: Never want what you can never have. Born on the day of the Mexican Goddess of Grass, Malinalli, she takes that name until 1519 when she begins her new Christian life as Marina, one of twenty slaves given to Conquistador Hernán Cortés after he defeats the natives of Tabasco. Having been sold into slavery by a wicked stepfather, Malinalli has learned Mayan as well as her native tongue Nahuatl. When Cortés discovers she can speak two languages, he makes her his interpreter and keeps her constantly at his side. His soldiers admire her and give her the respectful title of Don?a Marina (Lady Marina). Later, as she learns Spanish and becomes trilingual, she helps Cortés form alliances among Nahuatl speakers who hate Moctezuma II, a tyrant who has waged wars on neighboring tribes to obtain captives for human sacrifice. Cortés and his coalition of Spanish conquistadors and Tlaxcalan warriors lead a fierce attack upon the Aztec empire, conquer Moctezuma II, and thus change the fate of Mexico and Spain forever. Although Cortés comes to love Marina, and she brings out his best qualities, he allows her to marry a hidalgo lover for her future protection. Yet Cortés and Malinalli (also called La Malinche) become a team that rebuilds a devastated nation, shapes its Christian destiny, and leaves a proud legacy for two nations that enriched each other even as they tried to destroy each other.
Handbook To Life In The Aztec World
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Author : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2007
Handbook To Life In The Aztec World written by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
Under The Fifth Sun
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Author : Rick Heide
language : en
Publisher: Heyday Books
Release Date : 2002
Under The Fifth Sun written by Rick Heide and has been published by Heyday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Collections categories.
A collection of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and commentary, highlighting more than two centuries of Latino writing from California.