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Mesoamerica

Series The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples
of the Americas, Volume 2, Part 1

Edited by Richard E.
W. Adams and Murdo J.
MacLeod

Publication Date 2000

Hardback ISBN-10 0521351650

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521351652

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521351652

Overview

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II:
Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all
the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with
archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and
continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is
divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and
after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance
theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary
development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and
the Tarascan. The chapters covering the prehistory of Mesoamerica offer
explanations for the rise and fall of the Classic Maya, the Olmec, and the
Aztec, giving multiple interpretations of debated topics, such as the nature of
Olmec culture. Through specific discussions of the native peoples of the
different regions of Mexico, the chapters on the period since the arrival of the
Europeans address the themes of contact, exchange, transfer, survivals,
continuities, resistance, and the emergence of modern nationalism and the
nation-state.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see Mesoamerica in the Cambridge
University Press online catalogue.

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The
Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. 2, part 1:
Mesoamerica

Frontmatter

Introduction
to a Survey of the Native Prehistoric Cultures of Mesoamerica by
Richard
E. W. Adams

The
Paleoindian and Archaic Cultures of Mesoamerica by Robert
N. Zeitlin and Judith
Francis Zeitlin

The
Preclassic Societies of the Central Highlands of Mesoamerica by
David C.
Grove

The
Precolumbian Cultures of the Gulf Coast by Richard
A. Diehl

The
Maya Lowlands: Pioneer Farmers to Merchant Princes by Norman
Hammond

The
Central Mexican Highlands from the Rise of Teotihuacan to the Decline of
Tula by George
L. Cowgill

Western
and Northwestern Mexico by Shirley
S. Gorenstein

Cultural
Evolution in Oaxaca: the Origins of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations
by Joyce
Marcus and Kent V.
Flannery

The
Southeast Frontiers of Mesoamerica by Payson
D. Sheets

The
Maya Highlands and the Adjacent Pacific Coast by Robert
J. Sharer

The
Aztecs and Their Contemporaries: The Central and Eastern Mexican Highlands
by Thomas
H. Charlton

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