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This broadly gauged, synthetic study examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire (called Tawintinsuyu) in 1532 brought dramatic and irreversible transformations in traditional Andean modes of production, technology, politics, religion, culture, and social hierarchies. At the same time, Professor Andrien explains how the indigenous peoples merged these changes with their own political, socioeconomic, and religious traditions. In this way European and indigenous life ways became intertwined, producing a new and constantly evolving hybrid colonial order in the Andes.

After beginning with a study of Tawintinsuyu on the eve of the Spanish invasion, Andrien then presents the salient topics in Andean colonial history: the emergence of the colonial state; the colonial socioeconomic order; indigenous culture and society; Spanish attempts to impose Roman Catholic orthodoxy; and Andean resistance, rebellion, and political consciousness. By drawing on his own research and the contributions from scholars in many disciplines, Kenneth J. Andrien offers a masterful interpretation of Andean colonial history, one of the most dynamic and creative fields in Latin American studies.

"This is a clearly written, comprehensive, and well-balanced account. . . particularly in discussions of the often vexed and central question of Spanish versus Native American issues."--Peter J. Bakewell, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History, Southern Methodist University ... Read more

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a must!
This book let me say has it all! A really great and easy to read history-type book on the incan civilization and colonial society in the Andes. It's very well written and includes so many interesting and no so obvious details. It's easy to understand and a fast read. The only complaint I have is that it's a bit repetitive throughout the chapters, but for students, that's not a bad thing! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Catherine Julien's translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru - an account of the Spanish conquest of Peru by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire - features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this remarkably rich source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts. ... Read more

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How the Incas lost Peru by Titu Cusi
Titu Cusi was the son of Manco Inca, the younger half-brother of Huascar Inca and Atahualpa, the two half-brothers who were engaged in a civil war against each other when the Spaniards landed in Peru in 1530. Atahualpa ruled the northern territories around Quito; and Huascar had been crowned Inca by the nobility of Cuzco, the empire's traditional center. Htahualpa's generals defeated and captured Huascar outside Cuzco. Soon thereafter, Atahualpa met Francisco Pizarro at Cajamarca on 16th November 1532. After a short battle, Atahualpa was taken prisoner without a single Spanish casualty.

Atahualpa ordered the assassination of Huascar and the delivery of 24 tons of gold and silver as his own ransom. Nevertheless, Atahualpa was executed by the Spaniards, and with the help of the Spaniards, his half-brother, Manco Inca (Titu Cusi's father) assumed the royal fringe, or maska paycha, reserved for the ruling Inca. A few years later Manco Inca rebelled and after almost conquering Cuzco, withdrew to Vilcabamba. After his assassination in 1545, Titu Cusi assumed command of Vilcabamba. He continued the resistance until his own death in 1571, but perhaps for diplomatic reasons, converted to Christianity and took the name of Diego de Castro.

Titu Cusi's version of these events was based on the oral traditions that were kept by his father's panaca, or kinship group. He related his account the year before his death in the language of the Incas, Quechua, to the Augustinian monk Fray Marcos García, who translated it into Spanish before it was transcribed by an unknown scribe.

The Spanish version and Catherine Julien's translation appear on facing pages in this lovely book. She loads both texts with very helpful footnotes and annotations, explaining not only specific words and phrases, but also the context of the arguments Titu Cusi was making. For example, "Titu Cusi refers to the Incas here as "natural lords" ("señores naturales"), a claim ot legitimacy in European terms. There was an argument then being forcefully made that the Incas were not natural lords, but tyrants who had gained ascendancy through conquest by force in the recent past. Spanish usurpation of sovereignty was thus justified."

Julien has included a very well written 22 page introduction which places Titu Cusi's document into its historical and cultural perspective. There is a very good bibliography; and the index is well done and very helpful. As a general reader, I found this to be a fascinating insight into Incan history. I have no expertize to be able judge the relative merits of various translations of this work.

But I enjoyed reading this book, and I took comfort from Karen Spalding's summary of the translation: "Catherine Julien's extensive research in Inca history and archeology makes her uniquely qualified to offer us this dual-language edition of Titu Cusi's version of how the Incas lost Peru to a small gang of invaders from across the sea."

Julien's autobiography appears at the Western Michigan University website.

Robert C. Ross 2008

The best edition of Titu Cusi ever!
Catherine Julien has delivered, yet again.This edition of the Inca's account of the Spanish conquest of the Andes is a wonderful addition to the literature, which can be useful to both the ethnohistorian or the lay reader. Working in either language, the character of 16th century Spanish has been preserved.Bilingual readers will take much away from Julien's careful treatment of the text and her award wining commentary on the document. Two other editions of Titu Cusi Yupangui have been published within the past year, but this is simply the best of the three! ... Read more

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Subjects: Businesswomen -- Peru InterviewsBusinesswomen -- California Berkeley InterviewsPhilanthropists -- California InterviewsWorld War, 1939-1945 -- ChinaChinese American women -- California InterviewsChina -- History 20th centuryHong Kong (China) -- History 20th centuryNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Winner of the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true refiection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History,Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories.

The two historical genres that contributed most to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish narratives about the Incas were an official account of Inca dynastic genealogy and a series of life histories of Inca rulers. Rather than take for granted that there was an Inca historical consciousness, Julien begins by establishing an Inca purpose for keeping this dynastic genealogy. She then compares Spanish narratives of the Inca past to identify the structure of underlying Inca genres and establish the dependency on oral sources. Once the genealogical genre can be identified, the life histories can also be detected.

By carefully studying the composition of Spanish narratives and their underlying sources, Julien provides an informed and convincing reading of these complex texts. By disentangling the sources of their meaning, she reaches across time, language, and cultural barriers to achieve a rewarding understanding of the dynamics of Inca and colonial political history. ... Read more

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The unfulfilled promise of an Indian utopia in the Andes
Charles F. Walker's, Smoldering ashes: Cuzco and the creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840, primarily revolves around two individuals Tupac Amaru and Agustin Gamarra. The book is one in the Duke University Press series "Latin American Otherwise." Walker relies on research in many archives including the Archivo Departamental del Cuzco. The Tupac Amaru rebellion, Walker argues, has to be viewed in the context of local, regional, and national struggles. This took place before nationalist European movements and thus Walker uses the term proto-nationalist to describe events that occurred in the old Inca center of Cuzco. Tupac Amaru tried to unite a base of all the masses against the Spaniards. When the rebellion did not succeed, the division between indigenous and others hardened, which limited future possibilities for Indian expression in a republican state. Cuzco caudillo, Agustin Gamarra, also appealed to the people to build a strong coalition, but in a post independence civil war, Indians failed to join with him. "His failure to recruit Indians for his military campaigns, as evident in the Battle of Yanacocha (1836), led to his demise and epitomized the enduring gulf between the republic of the Indians and the republic of Peru."(15)
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The discovery and conquest of Peru by P. Ceiza de León
The discovery and conquest of Peru by Ceiza de León is one of the most important 16th century of the Contact Period. This is a primary account based upon first hand experience and descriptions. Ceiza de León was with Francisco Pizzaro when the Spanish first arrived on the Peruvian coast and was one of the few chroniclers who wrote about what he observed in the Inca Imperial capital of Cuzco before it was destroyed by the Spanish. For example, his description of the Temple of the Sun or Coricancha is one of a handful of first hand accounts we have of this important religious center. Ceiza de Leon also has drawings of Contact Period Peru which provide excellent comparative references with what was illustrated by other chroniclers who subsequently came to this region. The English translation of this account is excellent. This is based upon my comparisons of this translation, with what Ihave seen as it was written in 16th century Spanish.

Detailed and balanced account of Spanish occupation of Peru
This work is actually part 3 in the series of volumes written by the author, who wrote about the events of the Spanish conquest of Peru soon after they occurred.This part 3 was never published and only discoveredin the 70's.It comes across as a well-balanced presentation of events asthe partners of Francisco Pizzaro and Diego de Almegro search for anddiscover the Inca civilization in the Andean region of South America. Detailed and easy to read and understand, the author himself was notinvolved in the events but was able to speak with men still living fromthose times and understand it by recollecting of his own experiences.Thebook contains notes at the end of each chapter, some illustrations, maps,and a glossary.I found this work compelling, but its rating arisesbecause it did not reach the level of some other conquest stories, such asD and C of Mexico, De Vaca, or La Florida (available in De SotoChronicles).But is the only thorough account of the Peruvian conquest Iam aware of apart from that of Pedro Pizarro.Another recently uncoveredwork, Narrative of the Incas, tells of events from the Inca's perspective. ... Read more

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Sendero Luminoso in the Northern Andes Explained
I attended college in Lima in 1983-4, just as Sendero Luminoso's insurgency started to gain momentum. In the city, we would hear stories of political violence up in the mountains that seemed almost unbelievable in their ferocity.As murders, massacres and counter-massacres mounted, it seemed as though the Sierra was gripped in a wave of mass insanity.

Lewis Taylor is a historian/political scientist who has been studying and writing about agrarian issues in northern Peru since the late 1970's. There is no outsider who better understands the byzantine world of campesino political parties and land struggles in the Cajamarca-La Libertad region of Peru. While doing his fieldwork, Taylor met some of the people who would go on to lead Sendero Luminoso in the northern Andes.It is hard to imagine a better situated guide to explain what happened from 1989-97 in this particular region.

A micro-history of a discreet area is perhaps the best way to understand a guerilla insurgency. Revolution always has local roots and is played out on a town by town, hamlet by hamlet basis.Taylor takes the reader on a blow by blow description of the land invasions and reforms that immediately preceeded the war.He then goes on to identify by name, the local guerilla, political and military actors who would shape the conflict.Every critical step in the insurgency is explained with full and unflinching detail.

The causes and effects of Sendero Luminoso's struggle will provide historians, political scientists and anthropologists with material for papers and books for many decades.There will be many great studies but few of the writers will have been as well placed as Lewis Taylor to understand what happened.Highly recommended.
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The Shining Path was once one of the most feared guerrilla movements in the world & gripped Peru--and international headlines--for almost twenty years.The Path follows the story of four groups of people, including a missionary family who survived a traumatic Shining Path kidnapping and later encountered one of their captors.These stories intertwine so that, by the end, the reader has gained a number of varied perspectives on the Shining Path insurrection.The Path chronicles the suffering of Christians in that area and the remarkable strides that were made toward peace and healing in the midst of a harsh civil war. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Rare manuscript—one of the primary sources of information on pre-Conquest Incan history, traditions and chronology, gives full details of ceremonies, festivals and religious beliefs and provides detailed accounts of the origin of the Incas, ancient systems of land division, early settlements, biographical sketches of rulers, coming of the Spaniards, the execution of the last Inca emperor and much more. Also includes sensitively written account of events leading up to and including the execution of a young Incan prince. Of great interest to students of ancient South American cultures, this important document also contains a lexicon of Quichua words and a list of place names. 2 maps. Bibliography.
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Conquistadors History
This translation of the work of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa is both riveting and detailed. As an account of the history of the Incas it is unsurpassed in its accuracy, presenting evidence gained from the Incas themselves circa1570AD.Events and occurrences are vividly portrayed although the readeris always left with a sense of myth being mixed with fact. Also theannoying use of Italics to mark out the obvious and often contradictorystatements forced to be included in the book by the Spanish Viceroy of thetime is somewhat demeaning.

Despite this the translation serves as afascinating read and as a lucid and detailed account of the history of theIncas. The translator has also included an invaluable lexicon of Quechuawords and useful maps of the areas in question that add a realism to thebook that would be otherwise unachievable.

A stunning and informativeread this work is equally capable of being a book of general interest or anaccurate academic source. However the prime benefit of this book is not itsauthenticity but its rich detail that illustrates the lifestyle of theancient Incas in a truly vivid manner. It is also interesting to note thestrong religious superiority that is portrayed by the author and theattitudes of the Spanish conquistadors towards the Incas that were apparentduring this period of history and to observe how these factors shaped thetype of history that was recorded during this period, a fact that is all toeasy to overlook. ... Read more

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Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes Arendt’s insights about the barbaric underside of Western civilization and moves them back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Spanish colonialism dominated the globe. Irene Silverblatt describes how the modern world developed in tandem with Spanish imperialism and argues that key characteristics of the modern state are evident in the workings of the Inquisition. Her analysis of the tribunal’s persecution of women and men in colonial Peru illuminates modernity’s intricate "dance of bureaucracy and race."

Drawing on extensive research in Peruvian and Spanish archives, Silverblatt uses church records, evangelizing sermons, and missionary guides to explore how the emerging modern world was built, experienced, and understood by colonists, native peoples, and Inquisition officials: Early missionaries preached about world history and about the races and nations that inhabited the globe; Inquisitors, able bureaucrats, defined who was a legitimate Spaniard as they executed heretics for "reasons of state"; the "stained blood" of Indians, blacks, and descendants of Jews and Moors was said to cause their deficient character; and native Peruvians began to call themselves Indian.

In dialogue with Arendt and other theorists of modernity, Silverblatt shows that the modern world’s underside is tied to its origins in colonialism and to its capacity to rationalize violence. Modern Inquisitions forces the reader to confront the idea that the Inquisition was not only a product of the modern world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but party to the creation of the civilized world we know today. ... Read more

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Great Book
I have read many books on Sendero Luminoso.This is one of the best.Some of the contributers are genious.If you have any interest in the war in Peru from 1980 to 1995, you simply must read this book.

different perspectives paint complete picture
stern does a great job in collecting essays that tell the story of the rise and fall of the shining path... I had mcuh fun reading this book.

A revolution that only brought suffering & death
"Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980 - 1995," by Editor Steve J. Stern is a collection of essays that vividly documents a revolution that only brought suffering and death.This five-part book traces the roots of the Shining Path from its heady beginning to the conquest that failed.

Part One is dry.However, Part Two & Three generate much more interest.I found Ponciano del Pino, Nelson Manrique, Orin Starr, Jo-Marie Burt and Patricia Oliart the best of the bunch.They crystallized the subject...bringing it to life and provided stimulating insights.

Shining Path started in rural Ayacucho in the late 1970's and eventually made its way into the urban centers, particularly Villa El Salvador outside of Lima nearly ten years later.Initially Shining Path was ethical and moral.The Founding Father of the movement Professor Abimael Guzman instructed his Indian followers to punish adultery, alcoholism, vagrancy, robbery and cattle rustling. Moreover, the young flocked to the revolutionary rhetoric of a "people's war."

Early on the Shining Path maintained good ties with the peasants in the countryside.However, this did not last for long because in 1983 - 1984 the armed forces implemented a brutal "dirty war" that forced the guerrillas away from traditional regions of support and into new territory where they too used fear and intimidation tactics against the local peasant population.

Eventually, the Shining Path went out of control...conducting terrible massacres against unarmed civilians and forcing children into its ranks.The tide turned against the Shining Path with the 1990 election of President Alberto Fujimori.The new president accelerated the organization of self-defense groups among the unprotected peasant population with the distribution of shotguns, rifles and handguns.

The unfortunate part of the Shining Path revolution was that the poor were trapped in violence from both sides.However, the true downfall of the Shining Path is that at the end they were nothing but ruthless terrorists who preyed on the poor.

Bert Ruiz

Interesting and Informed
This book collects the thoughts of Peruvians and Peruvianists on the terrible decade of the 1980s - the most thorough and nuanced account of Sendero Luminoso I have read, with attention to many events in a variety of regions of the country. The reader really walks away with a sense of what this period was like for the people who lived through it. ... Read more