{"id":1163,"date":"2022-08-20T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2022-08-20T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T23:09:14","slug":"mastering-the-glyphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2022\/08\/20\/mastering-the-glyphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering the Glyphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fifth Sun:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">A New History of the Aztecs<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">by Camilla Townsend.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Oxford University Press,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">320 pp., $29.95; $21.95 (paper)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">by Frances F. Berdan.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Reaktion, 232 pp., $25.00<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Conquistadores:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A New History of Spanish\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Discovery and Conquest\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">by Fernando Cervantes.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Viking, 493 pp., $35.00<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Guide to Nahuatl Writing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">by Gordon Whittaker.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">University of California Press,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">210 Pp., $34.95<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">J. H. Elliott,\u00a0NYR, 02.12.2021<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Sun:\u00a0A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend.\u00a0Oxford University Press,\u00a0320 pp., $29.95; $21.95 (paper) The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations\u00a0by Frances F. Berdan.\u00a0Reaktion, 232 pp., $25.00 Conquistadores:\u00a0A New History of Spanish\u00a0Discovery and Conquest\u00a0by Fernando Cervantes.\u00a0Viking, 493 pp., $35.00 Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs:\u00a0A Guide to Nahuatl Writing\u00a0by Gordon Whittaker.\u00a0University of California Press,\u00a0210 Pp., $34.95 J. H. Elliott,\u00a0NYR, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2022\/08\/20\/mastering-the-glyphs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mastering the Glyphs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}