War and society in ancient Mesoamerica
By: Ross Hassig.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Wars.; Indians of Mexico -- History.; Aztecs -- Wars.; Aztecs -- History.; Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico); Mexico -- Antiquities.
Description: "The author offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state."--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-312) and index.