Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History."

The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398–1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was “the beginning and origin” of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-century M

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, Ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. Because they lacked numerical superiority, faced