The Incas

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"The book investigates 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"--

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Full title :The Incas / Terence N. D'Altroy.

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"The book investigates 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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781118610596, 1118610598, 9781118610602, 1118610601, 1444331159, 9781444331158
oclc:ocn866563832
LC Classification:F3429
Dewey Decimal:985/.019

The Peoples of America; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter One: Introduction; Investigating Empires4; Studying the Incas; The Written Sources; Inca Archaeology; Notes; Chapter Two: The Land and Its People; The Natural Setting; Traditional Land Use Today; Human Physiology in the Andean Environment; Predecessors; Languages; Time Frames; Notes; Chapter Three: The Incas before the Empire; Setting the Stage; The Archaeological Picture; A Sketch of Pre-Imperial Inca Society; Notes.

Chapter Four: The History of the Empire: Narrative VisionsExpansionist Designs and the Crisis in Cuzco; The Major Expansions: Pachakuti and Thupa Inka Yupanki; Consolidation of the Empire: Wayna Qhapaq; Dynastic War: Waskhar and Atawallpa; Explaining the Inca Expansion; Notes; Chapter Five: Thinking Inca; Part I: Framing the Questions; Part II: Existence; Part III: Numerical Thinking (Not Just Accounting or Arithmetic); Conclusions; Notes; Chapter Six: The Politics of Blood in Cuzco; Tawantinsuyu: The Four Parts Together; Cuzco's Political Organization.

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