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Blood on the Wind : An Uncivil War in the Classic Maya Lowlands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzsimmons, James L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayas.
- Mexico--Antiquities.
- Mexico.
- Central America--Antiquities.
- Central America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- Blood on the Wind recounts the dramatic history of why the ancient Maya failed to create an empire in the lowlands. Highlighting the roles of various rival families and the fomenting of civil war in 250-850 CE, it sheds light on economics, politics, religion, culture, and warfare and shows how a disastrous chain of events prevented a lowlands empire from being achieved.
- Contents:
- The Rise of the Snakes
- Rebels and Outcasts
- Troubles in the East
- Perfect Men
- Usurpers
- Commoners
- Youth Defeats Experience
- Disorder
- An Unlikely Warlord
- The Beginning of the End
- Consequences
- A Provincial World.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-086985-2
- 0-19-086986-0
- 0-19-009243-2
- 9780190869854
- OCLC:
- 1572091867
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