The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas. / Vol. 2, Mesoamerica. Part 2

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica, 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 Content: Mesoamerica since the Spanish invasion: an overview / Murdo J. Macleod -- Legacies of resistance, adaptation, and tenacity: history of the native peoples of Northwest Mexico / Susan M. Deeds -- The native peoples of Northeastern Mexico / David Frye -- The indigenous peoples of western Mexico from the Spanish invasion to the present / Eric Van Young -- Native peoples of colonial central Mexico / Sarah L. Cline -- Native peoples of central Mexico since independence / Frans J. Schryer -- Native peoples of the Gulf Coast from the colonial period to the present / Susan Deans-Smith -- The indigenous population of Oaxaca from the sixteenth century to the present / María de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi -- The lowland Mayas, from the conquest to the present / Grant D. Jones -- The highland Maya / W. George Lovell.