INTRODUCTION 37We have dispensed with the Epilogue on the Zapatista movement found in the
first edition, since an entire chapter devoted to that movement is included in Unit
III on Modern Mesoamerica.
One of our main goals in writing this text is to ensure that the Mesoamericans’
own perspectives on their history and world are represented throughout. Another
goal is to summarize as fully as possible important scholarship available on
Mesoamerica from the international scholarly community. We are also determined
to integrate the scholarly findings on Mesoamerica into a useful text that is both co-
hesive and readable.SUGGESTED READINGS
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GRAHAM, JOHNA. (ed.) 1966 Ancient Mesoamerica: Selected
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HELMS, MARYW. 1982 Middle America: A Culture History
of Heartland and Frontiers.New York: University Press
of America.
HMAI 1964–1978 Handbook of Middle American Indians,
vols. 1–15. Austin: University of Texas Press.
KENDALL, CARL, JOHNHAWKINS, and LAURELBOSSEN(eds.)
1983 Heritage of Conquest Thirty Years Later.Albu-
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SANDERS, WILLIAMT., and BARBARA J. PRICE 1968
Mesoamerica: The Evolution of a Civilization.New York:
Random House.
WAUCHOPE, ROBERT(ed.) 1962 Lost Tribes & Sunken Con-
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WEST, ROBERTC., and JOHNP. AUGELLI 1989 Middle Amer-
ica: Its Lands and Peoples.Englewood Cliffs, New Jer-
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WOLF, ERIC 1959 Sons of the Shaking Earth: The People of
Mexico and Guatemala, Their Land, History, and Cul-
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