The Ancient American Civilisations - Softcover

'The entire book is the product of judicious reflection by an able mind fully abreast of a widely dispersed literature...Perhaps most of all Katz is interested in the movement toward larger, more complex social and political structures in possible parallel development to the Old World. The most original part of his book lies in his examination of the Triple Alliance and the Inca Empire in such terms' AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

Professor Katz is Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Latin American History at the University of Chicago. He studied in the United States, Mexico and Austria, and then taught Latin-American anthropology and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin for fourteen years. He has been visiting professor at the National University of Mexico and the University of Texas, Austin.