Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico

Description

This groundbreaking edition of the Codex Chimalpahin| edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder| makes available in English for the first time the transcription and translation of the most comprehensive history of native Mexico by a known Indian.

The Codex Chimalpahin| which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts| is a life history of the only Nahua about whom we have much knowledge.

Volume 1 of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records| it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extended period.