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  • In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl

    Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

    by Merilee Grindle ...
    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man’s world, a great scholar, and an original thinker—yet today she’s completely forgotten. Merilee Grindle has dug deep into the archives and uncovered her fascinating story."—Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature"Zelia ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jobs for the Boys

    Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective

    by Merilee Grindle ...
    Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. In Jobs for the Boys, Merilee Grindle considers why patronage has been so ubiquitous in history and explores the political processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

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    In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl

    Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico's Ancient Civilizations

    by Merilee Grindle ...
    Narrated by Cynthia Farrell ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 27 min

    Where do human societies come from? The drive to answer this question took on a new urgency in the nineteenth century, when a generation of archaeologists began to look beyond the bible for the origins of different cultures and civilizations. Zelia Nuttall threw herself into the study of Aztec customs and cosmology, eager to use the tools of the emerging science of anthropology to prove that ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • On Savage Shores

    How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

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    An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs

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    The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and ... Read more

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  • The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

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