Ross Hassig
Auteur de Aztec warfare : imperial expansion and political control
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Œuvres de Ross Hassig
Trade, Tribute and Transportation: Sixteenth-century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico (1985) 14 exemplaires
"Internal Conflicts in the Creek War of 1813-1814." Ethnohistory, v. 21 (1974), pp. 251-271. 3 exemplaires
"Roads, routes, and ties that bind," 1 exemplaire
Ethnohistory Volume 40, Number 3 (Summer 1993) 1 exemplaire
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Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions: That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629 (1982) — Directeur de publication — 31 exemplaires
War and Peace in the Ancient World (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) (2007) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "The Immolation of Hernán Cortés" — 15 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1996 (1996) — Author "Aztec Flower Wars" — 12 exemplaires
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- 1945-12-13
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- male
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- USA
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- anthropologist
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- 130
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- Évaluation
- 3.5
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- 20
The reader is thus well advised to take many of Hassig's specific conclusions with a helping of salt. That said, I found the book interesting enough, and a starting point for looking for more recent scholarship.
* Though even here there are important differences in interpretation. For example, a boomerang-shaped implement frequently depicted in the hands of Toltec warriors is taken by Hassig as a obsidian-edged "sword", a precursor to the Aztec macuahuitl; other scholars have interpreted it as a throwing stick, a specialized defensive tool for parrying darts, or a badge of rank without any particular practical use.… (plus d'informations)