The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the AmericasBruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Richard E. W. Adams, Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz, Murdo J. MacLeod Cambridge University Press, 1996 - 976 pages Publisher description: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan. The chapters covering the prehistory of Mesoamerica offer explanations for the rise and fall of the Classic Maya, the Olmec, and the Aztec, giving multiple interpretations of debated topics, such as the nature of Olmec culture. Through specific discussions of the native peoples of the different regions of Mexico, the chapters on the period since the arrival of the Europeans address the themes of contact, exchange, transfer, survivals, continuities, resistance, and the emergence of modern nationalism and the nation-state. |
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingA large scale treatment of pre-Colombian life in South America. It's a co-operative book, edited by Mr. Salomon, who has a bias towards historians from the managed ecology school. An interesting and informative read. Read full review
Contents
Warfare Reorganization and Readaptation at the Margins of Spanish | 18 |
The Making and Reading of Native South American | 19 |
Principal cities in the La Plata Basin | 21 |
The Colonial Condition in the QuechuaAymara Heartland | 59 |
Colonial Era 443 | 60 |
684 | 68 |
The First Two Hundred Years | 96 |
Warfare Reorganization and Readaptation at the Margins | 138 |
pacification 1870s80s | 179 |
The Earliest South American Lifeways | 188 |
Archaeological sites of the Inka era ca C E 15oo | 190 |
Andean People in the Twentieth Century 765 | 218 |
The northern montaña in the late eighteenth century | 224 |
Native peoples confront colonial regimes 15001900 387 | 231 |
Index to Part 2 949 | 246 |
Towns and sites of the midcolonial era | 142 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Volume 3 of South America Part 2 of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas 2 Part Hardback Set The Cambridge history of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Bruce G. Trigger |
| Editors | Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Richard E. W. Adams, Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz, Murdo J. MacLeod |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0521630762, 9780521630764 |
| Length | 976 pages |
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