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Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
Beyond Black and Red is the first book to deal primarily and specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Matthew Restall has collected nine essays that represent contributions to the larger fields of colonial Latin American history, African diaspora...- $29.95
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Elton John's Blue Moves
By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist and the highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in a row and a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London...- $14.95
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Ghosts - Journeys to Post Pop: How David Sylvan, Mark Hollis and Kate Bush Reinvented Pop Music
Three music-obsessed, suburban London teenagers set out to make their own kind of pop music: Kate Bush became an overnight star, while success came to David Sylvian (and Japan), and to Mark Hollis (and Talk Talk) after years of struggle. But when their unique...- $26.95
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Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars
After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony--with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemala's conquistador. This volume shows that the real story of the Spanish invasion was...- $24.95
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Latin America in Colonial Times
Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a...- $118.00
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Latin America in Colonial Times
Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a...- $44.99
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Maya Conquistador
Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance...- $22.00
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Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala
Translated into English, these texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. This collection provides college teachers and students access to important new sources...- $29.99
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Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala
Translated into English, these texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. This collection provides college teachers and students access to important new sources...- $95.00
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On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide
Author: Matthew RestallISBN-10: 0197684823ISBN-13: 9780197684825Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 208Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Library Journal 01/31/2025 pg. 1Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2025- $29.99
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest: Updated Edition
An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood,...- $21.99
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The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize. The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert use of...- $38.00
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The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan /]cmatthew Restall
Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize. The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert use of...- $150.00
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The Conquistadors
With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they...- $12.99
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The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan
The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relaci de las Cosas de Yucat疣 (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original...- $24.95
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The Maya Apocalypse and Its Western Roots
This fascinating history explores the cultural roots of our civilization's obsession with the end of the world. Busting the myth of the ancient Maya prediction that time would end in 2012, Matthew Restall and Amara Solari build on their previous book, 2012 and the...- $84.00
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The Maya Apocalypse and Its Western Roots
This fascinating history explores the cultural roots of our civilization's obsession with the end of the world. Busting the myth of the ancient Maya prediction that time would end in 2012, Matthew Restall and Amara Solari build on their previous book, 2012 and the...- $31.00
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The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850
This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Instead of...- $38.00
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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas -- and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed...- $12.99
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When Montezuma Met Cort駸: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cort s that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cort s first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to...- $22.00
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