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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice books in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Some very light foxing. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Nigel Davies treated the Aztecs as an historian would using the documentary sources in a spirit of sceptical enquiry to establish the events and elucidate the motives that underpinned the emergence of their empire. Above all he treated them as people like ourselves driven by the same emotions the same preoccupations and many of the same ambitions. He also eschewed the then fashion for collectivist history in which people were at the mercy of an anonymous historical process and showed clearly how the impact of individuals governed almost every event the Aztec chroniclers recorded. Related to the ‘great man’ school of history once derided but now reborn as ‘agency’ whereby even events in prehistory can be attributed to individuals albeit unnamed and unnameable Davies’s ap- proach brings the principal actors in the Aztec drama to centre stage: (OS)