The Inca and Aztec states, 1400-1800 : anthropology and history

This book brings together eighteen papers by as many specialists, historians and anthropologists, on various aspects of Andean and Mesoamerican civilization in the preconquest and colonial periods.This is an important book, indispensable reading for both specialists and all teachers of Latin American history who wish to stay abreast of recent trends and findings in Andean and Mesoamerican studies. Rich in new information and insights, these essays indicate the large advances and the large remaining gaps in our understanding of the great vanished civilizations of the Aztecs and the Incas and of the role they played in postconquest Spanish America.