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Author Barker, Robert (Translator), author.

Title The duration and political nature of the Inca Empire / Robert Barker ; with a foreward by Stephen M. Hart.

Publication Info. Lewiston, New York : The Edwin Mellen Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 286 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-278) and index.
Contents J.H. Rowe's chronological hypothesis and its legacy -- Reviewing the textual evidence : a new look at the early Peruvian chroniclers -- Alternative methodologies : from ethno-history to archaeology -- The 'lost' Incas : a new hypothesis -- Preliminary conclusions -- Summary conclusions.
Summary "The core of the research presented in this volume seeks to explore and re- evaluate many of the influential factors which contributed to fundamental discrepancies in accepted interpretations of Inca history. Essential to this is the view that an important part of the problem leading to the many differing conclusions concerning Inca history lies in the way in which the documentary evidence has been assembled (methods of historiography), often with disregard for the socio-political and religious contexts in which such 'historic-laden' texts were constructed by and for Inca and /or Spanish colonial officials and clergy. In order to interpret the various historic documentary evidences and to better assess its value, it has been essential to determine who wrote what, for whom it was written, why it was written, and who benefited in any way from its being written. Furthermore, it assesses the effects that special interest groups may have had when constructing - and therefore, to an extent, fabricating - Inca history."--Abstract.
Awards "This book was awarded the Professor D. Simons Evans Prize for its distinguished contribution to scholarship."
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Subject Incas -- Historiography.
Incas -- Historiography.
Incas.
Incas -- Politics and government.
Incas -- Politics and government.
Incas -- History.
History.
Historians -- Andes Region.
Historians.
Andes Region.
Historians -- Spain.
Spain.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Hart, Stephen M.
Other Form: Print version: Barker, Robert (Translator). Duration and political nature of the Inca Empire. Lewiston, New York : The Edwin Mellen Press, [2014] 9780773400863 (DLC) 2014939702 (OCoLC)951412562
ISBN 9780779980185 (electronic book)
0779980182 (electronic book)
9780773400863
0773400869