Christina J. Johns

The Origins of Violence in Mexican Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The bloody, mass sacrifices of the Aztec empire have been documented and decried since the 16th century when the Spanish began using violence to justify their own domination of the Mesoamerican Indian population. Similarly, the violence of the Conquest, and the first years of the Spanish colonial occupation of Mexico, have been discussed and decried. However, researchers and scholars have discussed the violence of both societies only in descriptive terms, rarely attempting to offer explanations for the violence of the two periods. The unique feature of this analysis is a socioeconomic investigation of labor patterns, food production, trade, wealth, population, and environment, providing an explanatory framework for what otherwise appears as senseless and random violence. In this study, Johns analyzes the violence of Aztec and Conquest Mexico from a materialistic perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780275948382
• ISBN-10: 0275948382
• Artikelnr.: 21420702

Autorenporträt

CHRISTINA JACQUELINE JOHNS is Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of Power Ideology and the War on Drugs (Praeger, 1992) and State Crime, the Media, and the Invasion of Panama (Praeger, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction The Rise of the Aztec State The Aztec Social Formation
in the Later Empire Warfare in Aztec Mexico Forced Labor in Aztec Mexico
Legal Sanctions in Aztec Mexico Aztec Human Sacrifice and the Politics of
Fear Spain and the World Economy Warfare in the Age of the Conquistador
Forced Labor in Conquest Mexico Legal Sanctions in Conquest Mexico The
Heritage of Violence in Mexico References