Author: Joaquín Velázquez Cárdenas y León
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Documentos relativos a la desecación del Valle de México
Author: Joaquín Velázquez Cárdenas y León
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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How the Spanish Empire Was Built
Author: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789148871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789148871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.
Draining the Basin of Mexico
Author: Vera Silvina Candiani
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Cuautitlan Region, Mexico
Author: William T. Sanders
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others
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Languages : en
Pages : 3426
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Languages : en
Pages : 3426
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Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricultural Library, 1862-1965
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Bernardino de Sahagun
Author: Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806181346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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He was sent from Spain on a religious crusade to Mexico to “detect the sickness of idolatry,” but Bernardino de Sahagún (c. 1499-1590) instead became the first anthropologist of the New World. The Franciscan monk developed a deep appreciation for Aztec culture and the Nahuatl language. In this biography, Miguel León-Portilla presents the life story of a fascinating man who came to Mexico intent on changing the traditions and cultures he encountered but instead ended up working to preserve them, even at the cost of persecution. Sahagún was responsible for documenting numerous ancient texts and other native testimonies. He persevered in his efforts to study the native Aztecs until he had developed his own research methodology, becoming a pioneer of anthropology. Sahagún formed a school of Nahua scribes and labored with them for more than sixty years to transcribe the pre-conquest language and culture of the Nahuas. His rich legacy, our most comprehensive account of the Aztecs, is contained in his Primeros Memoriales (1561) and Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España (1577). Near the end of his life at age 91, Sahagún became so protective of the Aztecs that when he died, his former Indian students and many others felt deeply affected. Translated into English by Mauricio J. Mixco, León-Portilla’s absorbing account presents Sahagún as a complex individual–a man of his times yet a pioneer in many ways.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806181346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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He was sent from Spain on a religious crusade to Mexico to “detect the sickness of idolatry,” but Bernardino de Sahagún (c. 1499-1590) instead became the first anthropologist of the New World. The Franciscan monk developed a deep appreciation for Aztec culture and the Nahuatl language. In this biography, Miguel León-Portilla presents the life story of a fascinating man who came to Mexico intent on changing the traditions and cultures he encountered but instead ended up working to preserve them, even at the cost of persecution. Sahagún was responsible for documenting numerous ancient texts and other native testimonies. He persevered in his efforts to study the native Aztecs until he had developed his own research methodology, becoming a pioneer of anthropology. Sahagún formed a school of Nahua scribes and labored with them for more than sixty years to transcribe the pre-conquest language and culture of the Nahuas. His rich legacy, our most comprehensive account of the Aztecs, is contained in his Primeros Memoriales (1561) and Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España (1577). Near the end of his life at age 91, Sahagún became so protective of the Aztecs that when he died, his former Indian students and many others felt deeply affected. Translated into English by Mauricio J. Mixco, León-Portilla’s absorbing account presents Sahagún as a complex individual–a man of his times yet a pioneer in many ways.
Late Quaternary Tephrochronology of Nevado de Toluca Volcano, Central Mexico
Author: Keith Bloomfield
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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PRODROMUS SYSTEMATIS NATURALIS REGNI VEGETABILIS
Author: A. CANDOLLE
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Languages : en
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