{"id":4665,"date":"2008-11-16T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:55:02","slug":"book-report-the-aztecs-by-frances-f-berdan-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/book-report-the-aztecs-by-frances-f-berdan-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Aztecs by Frances F. Berdan (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book in a series on the Natives of the Americas.  As such, it has a lot of images and glosses over the worst of the Aztec empire, providing an inspirational and mostly laudatory account of the tribe.  I suppose it&#8217;s not a bad primer if you&#8217;re looking to write a sixth grade report, and it could probably serves as a source for that.  However, given that I&#8217;ve already read some more complete histories, it lacks in depth or in any gap-filling knowledge.  However, in my quest for endless anecdotes about how the Aztecs did it, I can talk about having read one more book about them.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=079100354X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book in a series on the Natives of the Americas. As such, it has a lot of images and glosses over the worst of the Aztec empire, providing an inspirational and mostly laudatory account of the tribe. I suppose it&#8217;s not a bad primer if you&#8217;re looking to write a sixth grade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5536,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}