Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Maya : A Very Short Introduction - Amara  Solari
eTextbook alternate format product

Instant online reading.
Don't wait for delivery!

Go digital and save!

The Maya

A Very Short Introduction

By: Amara Solari, Matthew Restall

Paperback | 13 August 2020

At a Glance

Paperback


$28.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.19 with

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas - and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control. There was never a single, unified Maya state or empire, but always numerous, evolving ethnic groups speaking dozens of distinct Mayan languages. The people we call "Maya" never thought of themselves as such; yet something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating - what we call Maya culture - has clearly existed for millennia. So what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be "invented?"

With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many ways, the pursuit of what made them "the Maya" is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Maya identity, city-state political culture, art and architecture, the Maya concept of the cosmos, and the Maya experience of contact with - including invasion by - outsiders. Despite its brevity, this book is unique for its treatment of all periods of Maya civilization, from its origins to the present.

More in History of the Americas

The Shortest History of the United States of America - Don Watson
The Maginot Line : A New History of the Fall of France - Kevin Passmore
Ask Not : The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed - Maureen Callahan
107 Days - Kamala Harris

Hardcover

RRP $49.99

$34.95

30%
OFF
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written - Walter Isaacson
Dragon on Centre Street : New York vs. Donald J. Trump - Jonah Bromwich
Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF
CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy : A Life in Fashion - Sunita Kumar Nair

RRP $100.00

$70.99

29%
OFF
Native America : The Story of the First Peoples - Kenneth L. Feder

RRP $69.99

$54.99

21%
OFF
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy - John J Mearsheimer
The Witches : Salem, 1692 - Stacy Schiff

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
America Tees Off : True Tales of Golf's Rich History - David Sowell