Altera Roma : art and empire from Mérida to México /

"Altera Roma explores the confrontation of two cultures--European and Amerindian--and two empires--Spanish and Aztec. In an age of exploration and conquest, Spanish soldiers, missionaries, and merchants brought an array of cultural preconceptions. Their encounter with Aztec civilization coincid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pohl, John M. D., Lyons, Claire L., 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2016.
Colección:Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press monographs ; monograph 83
Temas:
Acculturation > Mexico > History.
Aztecs > Antiquities.
Mexico City (Mexico) > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > History.
Monuments > Mexico > History.
Architecture > Mexico > History.
Impérialisme > Aspect social > Histoire.
Architecture > Mexique > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Acculturation.
Antiquities.
Architecture.
Civilization > Roman influences.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
International relations.
Monuments.
Mexico > Relations > Spain.
Spain > Relations > Mexico.
Mexico > Civilization > Roman influences > History.
Mexico > Antiquities.
Mexique > Civilisation > Influence romaine > Histoire.
Mexique > Antiquités.
Mexico.
Spain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / John M.D. Pohl and Claire L. Lyons
  • Rome, Tenochtitlan, and Beyond : Comparing Empires across Space and Time / Walter Scheidel
  • The Visualization of Imperial Dominance : Hobbe's Leviathan, the Mexica Templo Mayor and the Materialization of Authority / Eulogio Guzman
  • Monuments of Empire in Roman Spain and Beyond : Augusta Emerita (Merida), the "Spanish Rome" / Jonathan Edmonson
  • Aztec Art in Provincial Places : Water Concerns, Monumental Sculptures, and Imperial Expansion / Emily Umberger
  • Dramatic Performance and the Theater of the State : The Cults of the Divus Triumphator, Parthenope, and Quetzalcoatl / John M.D. Pohl
  • Aztec and Roman Gods in Sixteenth-Century Mexico : Strategic Uses of Classical Learning in Sahagun's Historia General / Andrew Laird
  • The Mexica Pantheon in Light of Graeco-Roman Polytheism : Uses, Abuses and Proposals / Guilhem Olivier Durand
  • Towards a New World's Laocoön : Thoughts on Seeing Aztec Sculpture Through Spanish Eyes / Thomas B.F. Cummins
  • Death in the Hands of Strangers : Aztec Human Sacrifice in the Western Imagination / Cecelia F. Klein
  • Alia Herculanea : Pre-Hispanic Sites and Antiquities in Late Bourbon New Spain / Leonardo López Luján.

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