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Author | : James Lockhart |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292761171 |
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In November 1532, a group of 168 Spaniards seized the Inca emperor Atahuallpa in the town of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian highlands. Their act, quickly taken as a symbol of the conquest of a vast empire, brought them unprecedented rewards in gold and silver; it made them celebrities, gave them first choice of positions of honor and power in the new Peru of the Spaniards, and opened up the possibility of a splendid life at home in Spain, if they so desired. Thus they became men of consequence, at the epicenter of a swift and irrevocable transformation of the Andean region. Yet before that memorable day in Cajamarca they had been quite unexceptional, a reasonable sampling of Spaniards on expeditions all over the Indies at the time of the great conquests. The Men of Cajamarca is perhaps the fullest treatment yet published of any group of early Spaniards in America. Part I examines general types, characteristics, and processes visible in the group as representative Spanish immigrants, central to the establishment of a Spanish presence in the New World’s richest land. The intention is to contribute to a changing image of the Spanish conqueror, a man motivated more by pragmatic self-interest than by any love of adventure, capable and versatile as often as illiterate and rough. Aiming at permanence more than new landfalls, these men created the governmental units and settlement distribution of much of Spanish America and set lasting patterns for a new society. Part II contains the men’s individual biographies, ranging from a few lines for the most obscure to many pages of analysis for the best-documented figures. The author traces the lives of the men to their beginnings in Spain and follows their careers after the episode in Cajamarca.
Author | : J. T. Lockhart |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Download The Men of Cajamarca : a Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James Lockhart |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Kim MacQuarrie |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2008-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743260503 |
Download The Last Days of the Incas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Documents the epic conquest of the Inca Empire as well as the decades-long insurgency waged by the Incas against the Conquistadors, in a narrative history that is partially drawn from the storytelling traditions of the Peruvian Amazon Yora people. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Author | : Adam Herring |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015-05-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107094364 |
Download Art and Vision in the Inca Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power and includes over sixty color images.
Author | : James Lockhart |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299141632 |
Download Spanish Peru, 1532–1560 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Spanish Peru, 1532–1560 was published in 1968, it was acclaimed as an innovative study of the early Spanish presence in Peru. It has since become a classic of the literature in Spanish American social history, important in helping to introduce career-pattern history to the field and notable for its broad yet intimate picture of the functioning of an entire society. In this second edition, James Lockhart provides a new conclusion and preface, updated terminology, and additional footnotes.
Author | : Pedro de Cieza de Leon |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1999-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822382504 |
Download The Discovery and Conquest of Peru Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s conquistador compatriates, as well as with Indian informants knowledgeable of the Incan past. Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook present this recently discovered third book of a four-part chronicle that provides the most thorough and definitive record of the birth of modern Andean America. It describes with unparalleled detail the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the imprisonment and death of the Inca Atahualpa, the Indian resistance, and the ultimate Spanish domination. Students and scholars of Latin American history and conquest narratives will welcome the publication of this volume.
Author | : Stuart Stirling |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 1999-10-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0750952849 |
Download The Last Conquistador Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Inca civilization of Peru was one of the gratest of the ancient civilizations of the Americas. Famous for their massive temples and fortresses built from huge blocks of stone and decorated with sheets of pure gold, the Incas also developed a system of government, capable of holding a vast area of territory together, and an extensive system of roads, connecting administrative centres, which acted as a means of colonization. Their religion of human sacrifice, worshipping Inti, the Sun God, was forcibly imposed throughout the empire. The population in 1500 numbered between six and seven million, but in the 1530s the Spanish, led by conquistador Pizarro, arrived in Peru. In their search for gold they devastated the Inca culture, destroying its treasures, killing its leaders and bringing to an end the infrastructure of its empire. By the 1570s, native American control in Peru had been completely lost and the civilization was no more. With Pizarro came Mansio Serra de Leguizamon, who became the last of the Spanish conquistadors to die. This book tells his story. After crossing the Atlantic when still in his teens, he played a central part in the conquest of the Incas, survived imprisonment and torture, took an Inca princess as his lover, abandoned his wife for the gaming tables of Lima, and spent the rest of his life in Peru. He died at the age of 78, leaving a famous apology for the conquest in his will. This book takes this document as its starting point, weaving a tale of the vicious subjugation of the Inca civilization.
Author | : Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Incas |
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Author | : Matthew Restall |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197537316 |
Download Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and themes that were for generations debated or perpetuated without question in academic and popular circles. The 2003 edition became the foundation stone of a scholarly turn since called The New Conquest History. Each of the book's seven chapters describes one "myth," or one aspect of the Conquest that has been distorted or misrepresented, examines its roots, and explodes its fallacies and misconceptions. Using a wide array of primary and secondary sources, written in a scholarly but readable style, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest explains why Columbus did not set out to prove the world was round, the conquistadors were not soldiers, the native Americans did not take them for gods, Cortés did not have a unique vision of conquest procedure, and handfuls of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. Conquest realities were more complex--and far more fascinating--than conventional histories have related, and they featured a more diverse cast of protagonists-Spanish, Native American, and African. This updated edition of a key event in the history of the Americas critically examines the book's arguments, how they have held up, and why they prompted the rise of a New Conquest History.