The Aztec Image in Western Thought (Paperback)

The great inquiry into the nature of Aztec civilization began at the very moment of its destruction in the name of the Spanish Crown and Church. The overwhelming discovery of a vast, luxurious overseas empire offering fresh evidence of the enormous diversity of customs and opinions among the nations of the earth expanded the imaginative as well as the geographic horizons of Renaissance Europe. In The Aztec Image, Benjamin Keen explores the shifting attitudes and focus of the scores of historians, philosophers, scientists, and men of letters and the arts who dealt with the Aztec theme in the four and a half centuries after the conquest of Mexico. From that time to the present, the world of the ancient Aztecs has been a subject of compelling interest and controversy in the West.

Keen explains how each new view continuously corrected and developed, the Western conception of Aztec civilization. He relates prevailing ideas about the Aztecs to the broad socioeconomic, political, and ideological patterns of the age, as well as to the contemporary state of knowledge about ancient Mexico. A comprehensive work of historiography, Keen's book is the first to encompass the sweep of Western thought on the Aztecs from Cortes to the present.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1990
First published:	September 1990
Authors:	Benjamin Keen (Professor Emeritus of Latin American History, Northern Illinois University, USA)
Dimensions:	152 x 228 x 49mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	570
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-1572-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Promotions
LSN:	0-8135-1572-6
Barcode:	9780813515724

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