Bartolome de Las Casas in History. Toward an Understanding of the Man and His Work. Edited by Juan Friede and Benjamin Keen. This is a massive study honoring the Spanish priest…
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Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing edited by Stephen D. Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and David Stuart. This landmark work in Maya studies is the first book to examine…
History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa details the origins, myths and wars of the Incan Empire as a reading preparation for Phillip II of Spain. The author began this…
Ambivalent Conquests. Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 by Inga Clendinnen. From the blurb: '...explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly…
Chan Chan: Andean Desert City edited by Michael E. Moseley and Kent C. Day. The fourteen essays in this book focus on the Chan Chan-Moche Valley Project and analyze its five-year…
Origins of Pre-Columbian Art by Terence Grieder. From the blurb: 'While archaeology provides examples of ancient symbols, ethnology reveals widely separated modern peoples still…
The Fifth Sun. Aztec Gods, Aztec World by Burr Cartwright Brundage. Illustrated by Roy E. Anderson represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the…
A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs by J. Eric S. Thompson. This work is an ambitious attempt to list and catalogue all known Maya inscriptions and to record the occurrence of every…
Indian Clothing Before Cortes. Mesoamerican Costumes from the Codices by Patricia Rieff Anawalt describes through text and more than 350 illustrations and charts what the Indians…
The Codex Magliabechiano. Volume 1: Facsimile reproduction of ‘The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans. Containing an Account of their Rites and Superstitions. An anonymous…
The History of Soviet Aircraft from 1918 by Vaclav Nemecek charts events from the early days through to the emergence of the awesome military power and variety of civilian…
Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World by Lynn V. Foster offers an accessible presentation of the latest archaeological and historical research on all aspects of Maya society…
Dogs of the Conquest by John Grier Varner and Jeannette Johnson Varner is the story of the dogs and their Spanish masters when they arrived in the New World of the Americas. This…
Civilization in the Ancient Americas. Essays in Honor of Gordon R. Willey edited by Richard Leventhal and Alan L Kolata. The essays in this book honour GR Wiley Bowditch Professor…
Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians. Their Evolution, Fabrication, and Significance in the Prayer Drama by Virginia More Roediger. Vivid colour paintings capture the beauty…