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The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture

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How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitl�n, 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 ...

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The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture 2010, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780521732079

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