The Inca Empire: The Formation and Disintegration of a Pre-Capitalist State (Explorations in Anthropology) - Hardcover

Patterson, Thomas C.

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9780854967148: The Inca Empire: The Formation and Disintegration of a Pre-Capitalist State (Explorations in Anthropology)

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The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study examines the contradictions, tensions and conflicts these processes engendered and explores the involvement of Europeans in Andean life after the 1530s as it resulted in new forms of exploitation and repression.

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Thomas C. Patterson Professor and Chair of Anthropology,University of California at Riverside

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This book offers a most readable synthesis of archeological and historical evidence about the formation and development of the Inca state and its disintegration under the impact of the devastating civil war which accompanied the arrival of the Spaniards in the 1530s.

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9780854963485: The Inca Empire: The Formation and Disintegration of a Pre-Capitalist State (Explorations in Anthropology)

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ISBN 10:  0854963480 ISBN 13:  9780854963485
Publisher: Berg Publishers, 1997
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