The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City Mundy Paperback

Name: The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City Mundy Paperback
Brand: University of Texas Press

University of Texas Press

The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico CityAuthor(s): Barbara E. Mundy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477317136, 978-1477317136\nSynopsis\nWinner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016\n ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016\n\nThe capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlans power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Corts and his followers conquered the city. Corts boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was destroyed and razed to the ground. But was it?\n\nDrawing on period repres.