On the Wings of Time Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru /

On the Wings of Time Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru /

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"Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the Andes forever, the civil society that...

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Main Author: MacCormack, Sabine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
1522-1548
Spanish literature > Peru > History and criticism.
Incas > First contact with other peoples > Peru.
Incas in literature.
Incas > Peru > Historiography.
Peru > History > Conquest, 1522-1548.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Universals and particulars : themes and persons
  • Writing and the pursuit of origins
  • Conquest, civil war, and political life
  • The emergence of patria : cities and the law
  • Works of nature and works of free will
  • "The discourse of my life" : what language can do
  • The Incas, Rome, and Peru
  • Epilogue: Ancient texts : prophecies and predictions, causes and judgments.

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