The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

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Bruce 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
Index to Part I
1025
The La Plata
1036
The Western Margins of Amazonia from the Early Sixteenth to
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