The Incas by Terence N D'altroy
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.
Terence N. D'Altroy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and the world's leading Inca specialist. He is the author of Provincial Power in the Inka Empire (1992) and co-editor, with Christine A. Hastorf, of Empire and Domestic Economy (1997).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631176770 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631176772 |
| Title | The Incas |
| Author | Terence N D'altroy |
| Series | Peoples Of America |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
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