The Lost History of the Incas
Author : David Michael Jones
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 9781846810350
Author : David Michael Jones
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 9781846810350
Author : Kim MacQuarrie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0743260503
Documents the epic conquest of the Inca Empire as well as the decades-long insurgency waged by the Incas against the Conquistadors, in a narrative history that is partially drawn from the storytelling traditions of the Peruvian Amazon Yora people. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Author : Kevin Lane
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1789145465
Kevin Lane skilfully integrates the Inca historical narrative (from chroniclers' accounts and archaeology) with details of local languages, gender relations and everyday life to retell the fascinating story of South America's largest empire.
Author : Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521637596
History of the Inca Realm, by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, is a classic work of ethnohistorical research which has been both influential and provocative in the field of Andean prehistory. Rostworowski uses a great variety of published and unpublished documents and secondary works by Latin American, North American, and European scholars in fields including history, ethnology, archaeology, and ecology, to examine topics such as the mythical origins of the Incas, the expansion of the Inca state, the organization of Inca society, including the political role of women, the vast trading networks of the coastal merchants, and the causes of the disintegration of the Inca state in the face of a small force of Spaniards. At each step, Dr Rostworowski presents her own views, clearly and forcefully, along with those of other scholars, providing her readers with varied evidence from which to draw their own conclusions.
Author : David M. Jones
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Incas
ISBN : 9780754823582
An expert and vivid guide to the history of the Inca civilization, exploring the native peoples of Peru and the Andes, their mythologies and ancient belief systems, the detail of their everyday lives, and the beauty of their art and architecture. ,
Author : Hiram Bingham
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0297865331
First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were of white granite, exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man. Bingham had not, as it turned out, found Vilcabamba, but he had nevertheless made an astonishing and memorable discovery, which he describes in his bestselling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS.
Author : Federico Kauffmann Doig
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Catalouge of an exhibition presented by WONDERS at the Florida International Museum
Author : Mark Adams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1101535407
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the truth—except he’d written about adventure far more than he’d actually lived it. In fact, he’d never even slept in a tent. Turn Right at Machu Picchu is Adams’ fascinating and funny account of his journey through some of the world’s most majestic, historic, and remote landscapes guided only by a hard-as-nails Australian survivalist and one nagging question: Just what was Machu Picchu?
Author : Tim Wood
Publisher : Viking Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Incas
ISBN : 9780670870370
Peel back four see-through pages to discover the life in the Inca empire.
Author : R. Alan Covey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0190299126
Inca Apocalypse develops a new perspective on the European invasions of the Inca realm, and the way that the Spanish transformation of the Andes relates to broader changes occurring in the transition from medieval to early modern Europe. The book is structured to foreground some of theparallels in the imperial origins of the Incas and Spain, as well as some of the global processes affecting both societies during the first century of their interaction. The Spanish conquest of the Inca empire was more than a decisive victory at Cajamarca in 1532-it was an uneven process that failedto bring to pass the millenarian vision that set it in motion, yet it succeeded profoundly in some respects. The Incas and their Andean subjects were not passive victims of colonization, and indigenous complicity and resistance actively shaped Spanish colonial rule.As it describes the transformation of the Inca world, Inca Apocalypse attempts to build a more global context than previous accounts of the Spanish Conquest, and it seeks not to lose sight of the parallel changes occurring in Europe as Spain pursued state projects that complemented the colonialendeavors in the Americas. New archaeological and archival research makes it possible to frame a familiar story from a larger historical and geographical scale than has typically been considered. The new text will have solid scholarly foundations but a narrative intended to be accessible tonon-academic readers.