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    Ghosts: Journeys To Post-pop

    Matthew Restall

    Three music-obsessed, suburban London teenagers set out to make their own kind of pop music: Kate Bush became an overnight star, while success came to David Sylvian (and Japan), and…

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    On Elton John

    Matthew Restall

    A lively and imaginative exploration of the career and music of the Rocket Man

    Elton John is not only "still standing," he is a living superlative, the ultimate record-breaking, award-winning…

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    Maya Conquistador

    Matthew Restall

    Exploring firsthand accounts written by Mayan nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, Restall offers a Mayan account of the conquest.

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    The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850

    Matthew Restall

    This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan, from the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part…

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    The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan

    Matthew Restall

    The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of…

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    The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan

    Matthew Restall

    The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of…

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    Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America

    Matthew Restall

    Deals specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Here, the author has collected nine essays that represent contributions to the larger fields of colonial Latin…

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    When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    Matthew Restall

    A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortes that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish…

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    The Conquest of Mexico

    Matthew Restall

    The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic…

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    Elton John’s Blue Moves

    Matthew Restall (Penn State University, USA)

    Argues that Blue Moves is Elton John’s most interesting and illustrative album, the one that opens up and helps to explain his explosive career before the album’s release in 1976…

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    2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse

    Matthew Restall,Amara Solari

    Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable…

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    Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars

    Matthew Restall,Florine Asselbergs

    After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche’ Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony - with their leader, Pedro de…

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    The Maya Apocalypse and Its Western Roots

    Matthew Restall,Amara Solari

    Driven by a clear and compelling argument, this engaging book traces apocalyptic thinking in two civilizations-Western and Maya. Looking both back and forward, Matthew Restall and Amara Solari build on…

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    The Maya Apocalypse and Its Western Roots

    Matthew Restall,Amara Solari

    Driven by a clear and compelling argument, this engaging book traces apocalyptic thinking in two civilizations-Western and Maya. Looking both back and forward, Matthew Restall and Amara Solari build on…

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    Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest: Updated Edition

    Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University)

    This vividly written and authoritative book offers an updated account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro, and reveals the true stories behind…

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    The Riddle of Latin America

    Kris Lane (Tulane University),Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University)

    Explores the promise and paradox of Latin America, giving equal weight to the colonial and national periods. This book provides unfamiliar readers with an interpretive view of Latin America’s long…

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    Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala

    Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries…

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    Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala

    Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries…

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    Latin America in Colonial Times

    Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University),Kris Lane (Tulane University, Louisiana)

    Latin America in Colonial Times is a concise history of Latin America from the era of the Aztecs and Incas to the age of Napoleon and Bolivar, written in a…

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    Latin America in Colonial Times

    Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University),Kris Lane (Tulane University, Louisiana)

    Latin America in Colonial Times is a concise history of Latin America from the era of the Aztecs and Incas to the age of Napoleon and Bolivar, written in a…

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    Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

    A collection of essays that addresses issues including contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary…

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    The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinvention

    Matthew Restall

    In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians, writers, artists, activists, and others have strategically reimagined the conquest to…

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    The Friar and the Maya

    Matthew Restall, Amara Solari, John F. Chuchiak, Traci Ardren

    The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set…

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    The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction

    Matthew Restall,Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

    This Very Short Introduction examines the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the Americas in the sixteenth century, as well as the Native American Kingdoms they invaded.

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    The Maya: A Very Short Introduction

    Matthew Restall (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, Penn State University),Amara Solari (Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Penn State University)

    Restall and Solari explore Maya identity, politics, culture, and indigenous views of the universe from ancient times to the present. With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many…

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