The Incas - Daltroy, Terence
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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 archeology 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,…mehr

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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 archeology 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.

Reviews:
Transforms the field of Inca studies.' 'Gary Urton, Harvard University'
There have been many syntheses of the Inca culture of the Central Andes of South America, but this one, by the leader in Inca studies, surpasses them all.' 'Choice'

Table of contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Land and its People
3. The Incas before the Empire
4. The Rise of the Empire: Narrative Visions
5. The Politics of Blood in Cuzco
6. The Heartland of the Empire
7. Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present
8. Family, Community, and Class
9. Militarism
10. Provincial Rule
11. Farmers, Herders, and Storehouses
12. Artisans and Artistry
13. Invasion and Aftermath
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Autorenporträt
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).