Hi! Thanks, it looks quite exciting.Hi! I only know of a very detailed and well known book about aztecs, other than more "researchish" material from scholars.
More than a book, is a series of books called simply Aztec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_(novel)
I'm ashamed to say I haven't read it already, but have heard very good reviews from couple people.
Hope you like it and it's what you're looking for.
Thanks! It would indeed be quite interesting to know what the Aztecs thought about the burgeoning Spanish conquerors.The best book that's come out in the UK in the past year or two about the Aztecs is Camilla Townsend's Fifth Sun. It's been really well received and is pretty unique in that it uses Nahuatl sources to reconstruct the Aztec perspective on the Spanish arrival. Big recommend.
I'd also shoutout América: the Story of Spanish North America by Robert Goodwin, which is a really great read – even if it doesn't deal with the Aztecs explicitly. You can imagine that the Aztecs are present for quite a big chunk, and you might find those bits interesting!
Thanks for that. I will also love to check that out. I have several books on the Aztecs too, but I don't know the names right now. But one of them is only about art, one only about the Codex Borgia, one is a novel and one is in German.The best book that's come out in the UK in the past year or two about the Aztecs is Camilla Townsend's Fifth Sun. It's been really well received and is pretty unique in that it uses Nahuatl sources to reconstruct the Aztec perspective on the Spanish arrival. Big recommend.
That's not necessarily true. Early American (and Mesoamerican in particular) history is as far removed form my area of interest as can possibly be, but I can assure you that there are plenty of reputable Mexican authors out there, like the late Miguel León-Portilla. I'm not sure if his works are readily available in English, though. If I try to go back to my time in uni I remember some interesting works by Tzvetan Todorov and Serge Gruzinski (I particularly like the latter) on the Conquest of America, and there's also a book by Inga Clendinnen titled Aztecs that might be readily available. As I said, I'm not a specialist in these topics, and as with any topic in the humanities everything's up for discussion, and as in any academic subject, old interpretations will eventually be surpassed.As a mexican, it's a shame to see that, after some more research, the most important and relevant books on Mexican pre-hispanic cultures are from foreigners, still, those seem to be very well documented books.