Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies.
Both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European... Læs mere
Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, Ithis 2002 book seeks to dispel what the author calls the 'Gorgon effect':... Læs mere