The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the AmericasBruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Richard E. W. Adams, Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz Cambridge University Press, 1996 - 1070 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. |
Contents
FRANK SALOMON AND STUART B SCHWARTZ | 1 |
Warfare Reorganization and Readaptation at the Margins of Spanish | 18 |
The Making and Reading of Native South American | 19 |
The First Two Hundred Years | 96 |
The Earliest South American Lifeways | 188 |
The Maritime Highland Forest Dynamic and the Origins | 264 |
and Northern Brazil 15801890 | 287 |
Regional Formations | 350 |
Archaeology of the Caribbean Region | 668 |
Prehistory of the Southern Cone | 734 |
Andean People in the Twentieth Century | 756 |
Inka Power and Its Social Foundations | 769 |
Archaeological sites of the Inka era ca C E 1500 | 770 |
The Caribbean | 864 |
Lowland Peoples of the Twentieth Century | 872 |
Andean Area | 904 |
Native Peoples Confront Colonial Regimes in Northeastern South | 382 |
Adaptation Readjustment | 443 |
The Republic of Indians in Revolt c 16801790 | 502 |
Andean Urbanism and Statecraft C E 5501450 | 518 |
Andean Highland Peasants and the Trials of Nation Making during | 558 |
The Prevalence and Persistence of Señoríos Naturales | 577 |
Indigenous Peoples and the Rise of Independent NationStates | 620 |
Index to Part 2 | 949 |
Coastal Brazil | 973 |
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The Western Margins of Amazonia from the Early Sixteenth to | |
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