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Author Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro, 1532-1592.

Title The history of the Incas / by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1572) ; translated and edited by Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith ; introduction by Brian S. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
Contents Introduction : Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and The History of the Incas / Brian S. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster -- Second part of the general history called Indica / Edited by Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith -- Cover letter to King Philip II of Spain -- Division of the history -- origin fable of these barbarous Indians of Peru, according to their blind opinions -- fable about the second age and the creation of these barbarous Indians, according to their account -- Ancient tribes of the provinces of Peru and its regions -- First settlers of the Cuzco Valley -- How the Incas began to tyrannize the lands of the tribes -- origin fable of the Incas of Cuzco -- route that these companies of the Incas took to the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they mix with the history -- entry of the Incas into the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they tell about it there -- disagreements between Manco Capac and the Alcabizas over the fields -- life of Cinchi Roca, the second Inca, begins -- life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca -- life of Mayta Capac, the fourth Inca -- life of Capac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca -- life of Inca Roca, the sixth Inca -- life of Tito Cusi Hualpa, whom they commonly call Yahuar Huacac -- What happened after the Ayarmacas kidnapped Tito Cusi Hualpa -- How it became known that Yahuar Huacac was alive -- Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh Inca, begins the Incaship only after the death of his father -- life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca -- provinces and towns that Viracocha Inca, the eighth Inca, conquered and tyrannized -- life of Inca Yupanqui, or Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca -- Chancas attack Cuzco -- second victory that Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui had over the Chancas -- Inca Yupanqui Inca raises himself as Inca and takes the tassel without the consent of his father -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the city of Cuzco -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the House of the Sun and establishes new idols in it -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates [the area] two leagues around Cuzco -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui kills his older brother named Inca Urcon -- nations that Pachacuti Inca destroyed and the towns he attacked; first, Tocay Capac, the cinchi of the Ayarmacas, and [then the] destruction of the Cuyos -- other nations that Inca Yupanqui conquered by himself and with Inca Roca -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui endows the house of the sun with great wealth -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of Collasuyu -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends [Capac Yupanqui] to conquer the provinces of Chinchaysuyu -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui establishes mitimaes in all the lands he had conquered -- Collas, sons of Chuchic Capac, rise up against Inca Yupanqui, seeking their freedom -- Amaru Topa Inca and Apu Paucar Usno continue the conquest of the Collao and defeat the Collas once again -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui appoints his son Topa Inca Yupanqui as his successor -- Pachacuti arms his son Topa Inca as a knight -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends his son Topa Inca Yupanqui to conquer Chinchaysuyu -- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui inspects the provinces conquered by him and his captains -- Topa Inca Yupanqui sets out a second time by order of his father to conquer what remained of Chinchaysuyu -- death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui -- life of Topa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca -- Topa Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of the Andes -- Topa Inca Yupanqui goes to conquer and put down the risen Collas -- Topa Inca makes the yanayacos -- Topa Inca Yupanqui orders a second inspection of the land and does other things -- Topa Inca builds the fortress of Cuzco -- death of Topa Inca Yupanqui -- life of Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca -- They give the tassel of Inca to Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca -- first things that Huayna Capac did after being invested as Inca -- Huayna Capac conquers the Chachapoyas -- Huayna Capac inspects all the land from Quito to Chile -- Huayna Capac wages war on the Quitos, Pastos, Carangues, Cayambes, and Guancabilicas -- Chiriguanas leave to wage war in Peru against those conquered by the Incas -- What Huayna Capac did after those wars -- life of Huascar Inca, the last Inca, and that of Atahualpa -- Huascar Inca leaves in person to fight against Chalco Chima and Quizquiz, Atahualpa's captains -- battle between the forces of Atahualpa and Huascar and the imprisonment of Huascar -- What Chalco Chima and Quizquiz said to Huascar Inca and the others of his group -- cruelties that Atahualpa ordered be committed against the defeated and captured men of Huascar -- News of the Spaniards reached Atahualpa -- Spaniards reach Cajamarca and capture Atahualpa, who orders that Huascar be killed, and he also dies -- Noting how these Incas were oath-breakers and tyrants against their own, in addition to being against the natives of the land -- Summary account of the time that the Incas of Peru lasted -- Statement of the proofs and verification of this history -- App. 1. Sample translation -- App. 2. Editions of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's The History of the Incas -- App. 3. rule of the Incas, following dates provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa -- App. 4. Incas of Cuzco, following information provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index
Notes Translated from the Spanish
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Subject Incas -- History
Incas -- Social life and customs
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Discoveries in geography -- Spanish.
Incas.
Incas -- Social life and customs.
Upptäcktshistoria -- Peru.
Inka (folk) -- historia.
Inka (folk) -- vardagsliv och traditioner.
Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
America.
Peru.
Inkariket.
Peru -- historia -- 1500-talet.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Bauer, Brian S.
Smith-Oka, Vania, 1975-
ISBN 9780292795488
0292795483
Other Titles Historia de los Incas. English