The Incas (Peoples of America) - Hardcover

D'Altroy, Terence N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631176772 ISBN 13: 9780631176770

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

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 remote Andean settlement near Lake Titicaca to its rapid demise six centuries later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors.

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• A bold new history by the world's leading expert on Incan civilization.
  
• Covers the entire Andean region, five countries and ten million people.
  
• Heavily illustrated with maps, figures, and photographs.

About this title

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 is the first book fully to synthesize history and archaeology in a sweeping exploration of the entire empire from Chile to Ecuador. 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.

About the Author:

Terence N. D'Altroy is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Director of the Columbia Center for Archaeology, and the world's leading Inca specialist. He is the author of Provincial Power in the Inka Empire (1992), co-author, with Christine A. Hastorf, of Empire and Domestic Economy (2001), and co-editor of Empires (2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631176772
• ISBN 13: 9780631176770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 391