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The Ruins of Time (1975) examines the conquest of the Maya by the Spanish, the discoveries and adventures of the first travellers among them, the dramatic journeys of Victorian archaeologists and explorers and also contemporary attempts to unravel Maya hieroglyphs. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Original Title Page 6 Original Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Acknowledgements 8 Table of Contents 10 List of Illustrations 12 Half-Tone and Line Illustrations 12 List of Maps 13 Author’s Preface 16 A Very Brief Guide to the Pronunciation of Maya Place Names 18 Glossary 18 Part I: Conquest 22 1 The Strength of Darkness 24 2 The Land of Maiam 32 3 The Conquest Begins 47 4 The Maya Crushed 56 5 ‘Are They Not Men?’ 72 6 Beneath the Vines, Beneath the Trees 86 7 The Fall of Tayasal 99 Part II: Exploration 110 8 A Lost City Rediscovered 112 9 The Race to Palenque 130 10 Incidents of Travel 144 11 The Cruzob, People of the Cross 166 12 The Greatest Discovery 181 13 La Cité Lorillard 199 14 The Epigraphers 218 15 Lords of the Jaguar Mat 235 16 A Foot-soldier of Anthropology 252 Bibliography 272 Index 276 The Mayan empire,Colonial rule,Economics of colonialism and imperialism,Eu

Author

David Adamson;

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