Books by Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith is a professor of archaeology at Arizona State University. He has directed archaeological excavations at houses and workshops in the provinces of the Aztec Empire. His book, At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life (2016), won a prize as “Best Popular Archaeology Book” from the Society for American Archaeology. Smith also carries out research on ancient cities and urbanism from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life
by Michael E. Smith
🏆 Winner Best Popular Book of 2017 from the Society for American Archaeology
“The only other map of the Aztec Empire was published in 1952 and it really made some questionable assumptions. We decided we needed to redo this and map the empire, not from the point of view of the Aztec armies marching out from Tenochtitlan, but rather from the point of view of local communities and how they were conquered, how they were incorporated into the empire, and how they related to the empire, the kind of taxes they paid. When we mapped the empire from the ground up, we found something new.” Read more...
Interviews with Michael E. Smith
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The Essential Codex Mendoza
by Frances Berdan & Patricia Anawalt -
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Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar
by Diego Duran -
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Aztec Imperial Strategies
by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Frances Berdan, Mary G. Hodge, Michael E. Smith & Richard E. Blanton -
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The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries
by James Lockhart -
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The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan
by Leonardo Lopez Lujan
The best books on The Aztecs, recommended by Michael E. Smith
The best books on The Aztecs, recommended by Michael E. Smith
The history of the Aztecs is the best documented of all the Native American peoples, shedding light on life in the Americas before the arrival of the conquistadors. Professor Michael E. Smith, an archaeologist at Arizona State University, introduces books about the Aztec Empire — with a focus on documentary sources and artefacts that reveal not only how the elites lived, but also ordinary people.
Interviews where books by Michael E. Smith were recommended
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1
The Essential Codex Mendoza
by Frances Berdan & Patricia Anawalt -
2
Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar
by Diego Duran -
3
Aztec Imperial Strategies
by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Frances Berdan, Mary G. Hodge, Michael E. Smith & Richard E. Blanton -
4
The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries
by James Lockhart -
5
The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan
by Leonardo Lopez Lujan
The best books on The Aztecs, recommended by Michael E. Smith
The best books on The Aztecs, recommended by Michael E. Smith
The history of the Aztecs is the best documented of all the Native American peoples, shedding light on life in the Americas before the arrival of the conquistadors. Professor Michael E. Smith, an archaeologist at Arizona State University, introduces books about the Aztec Empire — with a focus on documentary sources and artefacts that reveal not only how the elites lived, but also ordinary people.
