Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous

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A new paperback edition of the 1995 classic, the first comprehensive survey of the society and history of the Inca to take into account three decades of new arc

This ethnohistory uses colonial-era native-language texts written by Nahuas to construct history from the indigenous point of view. The book offers the first in

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