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Matthew Restall and Amara Solari.
2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse.
Published Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011.
ISBN 9781442206090.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 141x222x17mm.
Page count: xi,147pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the dustjacket, some mild ruffles on its edges; the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price $16.99/£9.99]
Weight without packaging: 335g.

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Discusses the lack of evidence for apocalypticism in Maya culture, and the post-Columbian influence of Western preaching on interpretation of Mayan remains.

Contents: Intro. — you really can survive; History of the end of the world — the Maya prediction; Maya evidence; Millenarian mother lode; End of the world comes to Mexico; Millennium comes to the Maya; Why people believe.

Illustrations: 33, monochrome
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 7pp
Index: yes

See also | Maya | Americas |
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