Codex Chimalpahin - Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, Volume 2 (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)

The seventeenth-century Nahua, or Aztec, historian Chimalpahin made an extraordinary contribution to the historiography of preconquest and early colonial Mexico, but his work has been little known or studied owing to the inaccessibility of its Nahuatl-language prose. This groundbreaking edition of the Codex Chimalpahin, the most comprehensive history of native Mexico by a known Indian, makes an English-language transcription and translation available for the first time.

The Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about whom we have much knowledge. It also affords a firsthand indigenous perspective on the Nahua past, present, and future in a changing colonial milieu. Moreover, Chimalpahin's sources, a rich variety of ancient and contemporary records, give voice to a culture long thought to be silent and vanquished.

Volume Two of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records, it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extensive period. Included are the Exercicio quotidiano of Sahagun, for which Chimalpahin was the copyist, some unsigned Nahuatl materials, and a letter by Juan de San Antonio of Texcoco as well as a store of information about Nahua women, religion, ritual, concepts of conquest, and relations with Europeans.

This volume is the second to be published, under the editorship of Susan Schroeder, as a set that will culminate in Volume 6, containing a comprehensive study of Chimalpahin's life and writings and a bibliography for theentire Codex Chimalpahin.