The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

A monumental achievement of scholarship, this volume on the Nahua Indians of central Mexico (often called Aztecs) constitutes our best understanding of any New World indigenous society in the period following European contact.‘Lockhart, the most influential historian of colonial Latin American history of his generation, has written a pioneering social and cultural study…The most important work on colonial Mexican history since Charles Gibson’s The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule (1964), Lockhart’s study is required reading.’ -Choice