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Bibliography


Useful works on the Aztecs and the Nahuatl language.

  • Carrasco, David. The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Cline, Sarah L. Colonial Culhuacan, 1580–1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
  • Haskett, Robert. Indigenous Rulers: An Ethnohistory of Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca. University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
  • Horn, Rebecca. Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519–1650. Stanford University Press, 1997.
  • Karttunen, Frances. An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl. 2nd ed. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
  • Laird, Andrew. Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico. Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • Karttunen, Frances, and James Lockhart. Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period. University of California Press, 1976.
  • Launey, Michel. An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl. Translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Lockhart, James. Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology. UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1991.
  • Lockhart, James. The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. Stanford University Press, 1992.
  • Restall, Matthew. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Wood, Stephanie. Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Paperback edition, 2012.

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