How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle?
Tenochtitlan, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of
war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling
collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of
experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to
embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the
forces that moved the world and the heavens. Subsequent essays
explore the survival of Yucatec Maya culture in the face of Spanish
conquest and colonisation, the insidious corruption of an austere
ideology translated into dangerously novel circumstances, and the
multiple paths to the sacred constructed by 'defeated' populations
in sixteenth-century Mexico. The collection ends with Clendinnen's
transition to the colonial history of her own country: a close and
loving reading of the 1841 expedition journal of George Augustus
Robinson, appointed 'Protector of Aborigines' in the Port Philip
District of Australia. Inga Clendinnen is Emeritus Scholar in
History at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her publications include
Aztecs (Cambridge, 1991), Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1999),
and Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1579
(second edition, Cambridge, 2003). Her memoir, Tiger's Eye, was
published in 2001; her Boyer Lectures, True Stories, in 1999; and a
collection of her literary essays, Agamemnon's Kiss, in 2006. Her
book on the meeting between the First Fleet and Aboriginal
Australians, Dancing with Strangers (Cambridge, 2003), won several
awards, including the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize.
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