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Title: Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan by Paul Sullivan ISBN: 0-8229-4230-5 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Splendid and Important History of the Maya
Comment: I am a friend of the author, but I wouldn't read a book that didn't hold my interest and shed some light on the Yucatec Maya. This book did both.
The 19th century Maya are every bit as fascinating as were their ancient ancestors and the million of so Maya who live today. Weren't aware of that? That's a shame because the Maya saga continues to unfold and Sullivan is a person who understands it intimately.
An Irish-American hacienda owner is murdered at his remote plantation in northern Yucatan, not far from present-day Cancun.
Sullivan knows how he was killed and who killed him, rebellious Maya who lived (and still live) in the region south of Cancun.
But why was Stephens killed? This is the task Sullivan sets for himself. The intrigues, political and economic, are complex and twisted. They rise from the level of regional Yucatan squabbles right up to the United States' president, Ulysses Grant.
Sullivan documents his information with care (his notes are good reading themselves), but this book reads like a thriller. To know something about the Maya and their history is to gain a better grasp of how people and their culture evolve. I recommend this book.
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Title: The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben MacIntyre ISBN: 0374201781 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto ISBN: 0385503490 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer ISBN: 0195170342 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Where I Was From by Joan Didion ISBN: 0679433325 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565848373 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 03 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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