The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City / / Barbara E. Mundy.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index