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 | Fortifications of the Incas (Fortress)
By: Osprey Publishing Price: $ 16.95 $ 4.81 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 3.0
The greatest period of Inca expansion occurred during the reigns of Pachacuti (1438–71), Tupa Inca (1471–93), and Huayna Capac (1493–1527). From the mountain stronghold of Cuzco, they subjugated the surrounding kingdoms and territories, absorbing their civilizations and their peoples. By 1525, they dominated much of the west of the continent, relying on fortified strongholds, an extensive system of roads an bridges, and obligatory military service to control local populations. This title takes a detailed look at the... |
|  | Jews of the Amazon: Self-Exile in Earthly Paradise
By: Jewish Publication Society Of America Price: $ 11.98 $ 10.77 Reviews: 5 Average Rating: 4.0
Ariel Segal, a Jewish anthropologist and novelist from Venezuela, spent two years living in Iquitos, Peru in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, studying a community of Jewish "mestizos", descendants of Jewish men who a century ago went into the Amazon seeking fortune and adventure, married native Amazonian women, and created a unique hybrid culture, combining elements of both groups, as well as features from the ever-present Catholic missionary culture. The members of this community consider themselves Jews; many have immigrated to Israel.... |
|  | Peru: The Ecotravellers Wildlife Guide (A Volume in the Ecotravellers Wildlife Guides Series) (Ecotravellers Wildlife Guides)
By: Academic Press Price: $ 34.22 $ 29.95 Reviews: 7 Average Rating: 4.5
From the world-famous Machu Picchu Incan ruins high in the Andes Mountains to Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and to the Iquitos area of Amazonian northeastern u, ecotravellers want to experience tropical forests and other stunning habitats and catch glimpses of exotic wildlife: toucans and parrots, monkeys and anteaters, frogs and toads, crocodiles and snakes. This book is all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Perus magnificent animal and plant life. The authors, professional biologists, selected color illustrations... |
|  | Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650 (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds)
By: University Of Notre Dame Press Price: $ 34.20
"Pastoral Quechua is an entryway into the world of colonial Quechua culture through language, showing how Spanish missionaries did not merely translate Christianity into the Inka language, but built up new and complex syntheses of Inka and Spanish worlds. A foundational work, it opens up new and untouched ways of understanding the impact of European colonialism in the Americas, making a singular contribution to colonial history, to historical linguistics, and to the anthropology of colonialism." ----Bruce Mannheim, University of... |
|  | A Sacred Landscape: The Search for Ancient Peru
By: Overlook Hardcover Price: $ 27.95 $ 13.97 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 5.0
Hugh Thompson has made a career exploring the mysterious pre-Columbian cultures of ancient Peru, providing unforgettable accounts of South Americas most strange--but enduring--culture. In A Sacred Landscape, he takes us from the great Moche pyramids to remote sites in the Central highlands that date back to the first millennium BCE--ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in mystery.He elegantly interweaves his account of the rise, decline, and fall of pre-Inca civilization with the story of his familys... |
|  | From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru (Latin America Otherwise)
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 34.81 $ 21.95 Reviews: 3 Average Rating: 2.5
From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru’s troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner’s reading of the Andean peasantry’s engagement and disengagement with the postcolonial state challenges long-standing interpretations of Peruvian and modern Latin American history and casts a critical eye toward Creole and Eurocentric ideas about citizenship and nationalism.Working within an innovative and panoramic historical and... |
|  | 41 Seconds to Freedom: An Insider#s Account of the Lima Hostage Crisis, 1996-97
By: Presidio Press Price: $ 24.95 $ 2.19 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
On December 18, 1997, more than six hundred VIPs were attending the birthday party of the Japanese ambassador to Peru at his elegant residence. Political figures, business leaders, and socialites mingled in a tented pavilion on expansive grounds. Then, without warning, fourteen masked, heavily armed figures burst in.Members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), a deadly Cuban-influenced band of insurgents, the terrorists demanded the release of four hundred of their comrades from prison–or they would kill all the... |
|  | Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936
By: University Of Chicago Press Price: $ 23.00 $ 20.50 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 4.0
Inspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, Adam McKeown asks in this new book: How were the experiences of different migrant communities and hometowns in China linked together through common networks? Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change argues that the political and economic activities of Chinese migrants can best be understood by taking into account their links to each other and China through a transnational perspective. Despite their very different histories, Chinese migrant families, businesses, and... |
|  | Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas
By: Yale University Press Price: $ 60.00 $ 42.40 Reviews: 3 Average Rating: 3.0
Situated high in the Peruvian Andes, the fifteenth-century Inca palace complex at Machu Picchu is one of the most spectacular archaeological sites in the world. In this beautifully illustrated book, leading American and Peruvian scholars provide an unprecedented overview of the site, its place within the Inca empire, the mysteries surrounding its establishment and abandonment, and the discoveries made there since the excavations by archaeologist Hiram Bingham III in the early twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent scientific findings,... |
| | | Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Texas Pan American Series)
By: Univ Of Texas Pr Price: $ 63.44 $ 17.95
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