To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Nigel Davies (historian)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nigel Davies
Member of Parliament
for Epping
In office
23 February 1950 – 5 October 1951
Preceded byLeah Manning
Succeeded byGraeme Finlay
Personal details
Born2 September 1920
Died25 September 2004(2004-09-25) (aged 84)
NationalityBritish
Occupationanthropologist, historian, MP and soldier

Dr. Claude Nigel Byam Davies (2 September 1920 – 25 September 2004) was a British anthropologist and historian who specialised in the study of the cultures of pre-Columbian America, publishing 12 academic works on the Aztec, Inca and Toltec societies. In addition to his academic work, Davies also served with the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, briefly sat as an MP for Epping and as the managing director of Windowlite Ltd.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    449
    606
    469
  • The Incas by Nigel Davies - Chapter 1
  • Ancient Kingdoms of Peru by Nigel Davies - Chapter 1
  • The Aztecs by Nigel Davies, Chapter 2

Transcription

Life

Born in September 1920 to Claude and Nellie Davies,[1] Nigel was educated at Eton College and subsequently at the University of Provence and briefly at the University of Potsdam in Berlin before the outbreak of the Second World War.[2] In 1939 Davies attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and graduated the following year, taking a commission as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards.[3] During the war, Davies served in the Middle East, Italy and the Balkans, leaving the services after the end of the war in 1946. In the general election of 1950, Davies stood for and won the seat of Epping as a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party. A year later he gave up the seat, refusing to stand in the general election of 1951 at which the constituency was won by Conservative candidate Graeme Bell Finlay.

Davies subsequently entered academia, achieving a ph.D. in archaeology and studying at University College London and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He made a lifelong study of the ancient civilisations of the Americas, concurrently with his role as the managing director of Windowlite Ltd.[2] Among Davies works are books on the Aztec civilisation, the Incas of South America and in particular the Toltecs, the pre-Aztec people of Central Mexico. His works were well received and are now standard references.[1] Davies never married and later retired to live in Tijuana, dying in September 2004.[2]

Works

  • Los Señoríos Independientes del Imperio Azteca, 1968.
  • Los Mexicas: primeros pasos hacia el imperio, 1973.
  • The Aztecs: a history, 1973.
  • The Toltecs: until the fall of Tula, 1976.
  • Before Columbus Came, 1976.
  • Voyagers to the New World, fact and fantasy, 1979
  • The Toltec Heritage: from the fall of Tula to the rise of Tenochtitlan, 1980.
  • Human Sacrifice, in history and today, 1981.
  • The Ancient Kingdoms of Mexico, 1983.
  • The Rampant God: Eros throughout the world, 1984.
  • The Aztec Empire: the Toltec resurgence, 1987.
  • The Incas, 1995.
  • The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru, 1997.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Nigel (Byam) Davies Archived 27 September 2003 at the Wayback Machine, Minnesota State University, retrieved 8 November 2008
  2. ^ a b c Davies, (Claude) Nigel (Byam), Who Was Who, (subscription required), retrieved 8 November 2008
  3. ^ "No. 34719". The London Gazette. 27 October 1939. p. 7250.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Epping
19501951
Succeeded by
This page was last edited on 3 January 2024, at 15:45
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.