Books by Inga (La Trobe University Clendinnen

A picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire, this book explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors. The author attempts to explain the philosophy, rituals, and social structures that underpinned this remarkable empire.

Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, Ithis 2002 book seeks to dispel what the author calls the 'Gorgon effect': the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will that afflict many who try to understand the Holocaust.

Both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes.