The death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the life of Mexico City
The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the heig...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press
cop. 2015
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| Series: | Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009328299708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- A Note on Spelling and Translations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Water and the Sacred City
- Chapter 3: The Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan
- Chapter 4: The City in the Conquest's Wake
- Chapter 5: Huanitzin Recenters the City
- Chapter 6: Forgetting Tenochtitlan
- Chapter 7: Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan
- Chapter 8: Axes in the City
- Chapter 9: Water and Altepetl in the Late Sixteenth-Century City
- Chapter 10: Remembering Tenochtitlan.
