The Mexican Imperial Dream: The Role of the State, the Civilian and Institutions of Tenochtitlan

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  • Lindsay C Sidders Hodgins

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https://doi.org/10.21971/P7M591

Abstract

The Mexica in the Central Valley of Mexico witnessed the development, expansion and collapse of their empire in the space of only two hundred years. Although the Empire’s collapse was swift and thorough, suggesting a weak structure in the first place, the sophisticated political and ideological development and the whirlwind expansion of the Mexican state, suggests just the opposite. The imperial leadership at Tenochtitlan accomplished the loose organization of city-states that was empire by the coercive and manipulative ideological domination of its civilian populations. The state ideology or value system of the elite was a unique product of the political environment of Central Mexico and the predominance of violent confrontation in that environment.

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Author Biography

Lindsay C Sidders Hodgins

Lindsay C. Sidders Hodgins is a MA student in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. She studies Colonial Mexican Ethno-history and will commence her PhD in the Department of History at the University of Toronto in September 2009. Lindsay may be contacted at lindsay.sidders@utoronto.ca

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Published

2009-09-04

How to Cite

Sidders Hodgins, L. C. (2009). The Mexican Imperial Dream: The Role of the State, the Civilian and Institutions of Tenochtitlan. Past Imperfect, 15. https://doi.org/10.21971/P7M591

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