Aztec imperial strategies
"Based on a ten-week working seminar in 1986, offers new interpretations of the extent, organization, and imperial strategies of the Aztec empire. Analyzes data from the major chroniclers and from individual towns and places throughout the empire. Information obtained from early colonial Spanish administrative documents and archaeology is presented in appendices"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57
Print Book, English, 1996
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., 1996
viii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 31 cm
9780884022114, 0884022110
27035231
Political organization of the central provinces / Mary G. Hodge
The basin of Mexico market system and the growth of empire / Richard E. Blanton
Art and imperial strategy in Tenochtitlan / Emily Umberger
The tributary provinces / Michael E. Smith
Aztec presence and material remains in the outer provinces / Emily Umberger
Manuscript painting in service of imperial ideology / Elizabeth Hill Boone
Imperial strategies and core-periphery relations / Frances F. Berdan and Michael E. Smith
A consideration of causality in the growth of empire : a comparative perspective / Richard E. Blanton