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Mesoamerica Books
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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,046 ratings — published 2019
The Maya (Ancient Peoples & Places)
by (shelved 17 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,606 ratings — published 1966
The Popol Vuh (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,925 ratings — published 1550
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,564 ratings — published 2005
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,238 ratings — published 1959
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.87 — 80,159 ratings — published 2019
An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.14 — 296 ratings — published 1992
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,459 ratings — published 2017
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.95 — 583 ratings — published 1962
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.95 — 555 ratings — published 1990
The Aztecs (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.95 — 275 ratings — published 1992
Aztec (Aztec, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,940 ratings — published 1980
When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.71 — 843 ratings — published 2018
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.42 — 99 ratings — published 1986
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,777 ratings — published 2008
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,463 ratings — published 2007
Corn Is Our Blood: Culture and Ethnic Identity in a Contemporary Aztec Indian Village (The Civilization of American Indian Series, Vol 206)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.22 — 27 ratings — published 1992
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.29 — 58 ratings — published 2005
Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.33 — 66 ratings — published 2013
The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.77 — 354 ratings — published 2011
The Flayed God: The Mesoamerican Mythological Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.24 — 50 ratings — published 1992
Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.06 — 125 ratings — published 1990
The Ancient Maya (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.03 — 210 ratings — published 1946
The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.88 — 358 ratings — published 1986
The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.50 — 12 ratings — published 2006
Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.42 — 26 ratings — published 1999
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,467 ratings — published 2011
The Order of Days: The Maya World and the Truth About 2012 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.07 — 75 ratings — published 2011
Aztec and Maya Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.42 — 147 ratings — published 1993
Aztec Thought and Culture (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) (Volume 67)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.11 — 325 ratings — published 1956
The Conquest of New Spain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,824 ratings — published 1568
Reading the Maya Glyphs (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.37 — 154 ratings — published 2001
Breaking the Maya Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.01 — 792 ratings — published 1992
The Maya: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.79 — 320 ratings — published
Florentine Codex: Book 1: Book 1: The Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.09 — 45 ratings — published 1970
Aztecs: An Interpretation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.09 — 256 ratings — published 1991
Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.34 — 158 ratings — published 1525
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,632 ratings — published 2016
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,233 ratings — published 1993
Mexican and central American mythology (Library of the world's myths and legends)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 2.68 — 19 ratings — published 1967
Daily Life of the Aztecs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.14 — 265 ratings — published 1955
Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.76 — 378 ratings — published 1987
Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.92 — 49 ratings — published 1988
The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.85 — 93 ratings — published 1998
The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.92 — 187 ratings — published 2011
Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2015
Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca: Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2009
Water And Ritual: The Rise And Fall of Classic Maya Rulers (Linda Schele Series in Maya And Pre-Columbian Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2006
You Dreamed of Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 3.74 — 17,676 ratings — published 2022
Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mesoamerica)
avg rating 4.60 — 30 ratings — published
“Some readers who have visited New Spain, and other interested persons who have not, may be aware that Mexico was a very large city, built in the water like Venice, and governed by a great prince called Montezuma, who was a king of many neighbouring lands and ruled over the whole of New Spain, which is a country twice the size of out own.”
― The Conquest of New Spain
― The Conquest of New Spain
“And as we came among the houses we saw how large a town it was, larger than any we had yet seen, and were fll of admiration. It was so green with vegetation that it looked like a garden; and its streets were so full of men and women who had some out to see us that we gave thanks to God for the discovery of such a country.”
― The Conquest of New Spain
― The Conquest of New Spain
