The Incas (Peoples of America)
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Book Description
The great empire of the Incas at its height encompassed an area of western South America comparable in size to the Roman Empire in Europe. This book describes and explains its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors.
The Incas provides the first book to fully synthesize history and archeology in an exploration of the entire empire from Chile to Ecuador. Drawing from commentaries and research by hundreds of chroniclers, explorers, and scholars, the author explains how the Incas drew from millennia of cultural developments to mould a diverse land into a dynamic, powerful, and yet fragile polity. From this integrated perspective, The Incas profoundly rethinks the nature of imperial formation, ideology, and social, economic, and political relations in Inca society.
Illustrated with numerous maps and photographs, this scholarly yet accessible book should become the new standard account of the most impressive of the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas.
About the Author
Terence N. D'Altroy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and one of the world's leading Inca specialists. He is the author of Provincial Power in the Inka Empire (1992); lead author, with Christine A. Hastorf and colleagues, of Empire and Domestic Economy (2001); and co-editor, with Susan Alcock, Kathleen Morrison, and Carla Sinopoli of Empires (2001).
The Incas (Peoples of America),Terence N. D'Altroy,Blackwell Publishers,0631176772,Ancient - General,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology,Archaeology / Anthropology,History,History: American,Incas,Latin America - South America,Social life and customs,South America - History,United States - General
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