Originally published in Mexico under the title Tenochtitlán en una isla (1959), this is a brief paperback summary of Mexican pre-conquest history. Its author is a prominent anthropologist and archaeologist, Director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. Brief chapters are devoted to Archaic, Formative, and Classic peoples, Toltecs and others, and the Aztecs. The whole is an accurate popularization, useful for introductory reading in English, but not an important work.
Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press
1964
