Voices from Vilcabamba : accounts chronicling the fall of the Inca Empire / Brian S. Bauer, Madeleine Halac-Higashimori, and Gabriel E. Cantarutti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Brian S., author.

Halac-Higashimori, Madeleine, author.

Cantarutti, Gabriel E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incas--Peru--Vilcabamba Mountains Region--History--16th century.

Incas.

Incas--Peru--Vilcabamba Mountains Region--History--16th century--Sources.

Vilcabamba Mountains Region (Peru)--Colonization--History--16th century.

Vilcabamba Mountains Region (Peru).

Vilcabamba Mountains Region (Peru)--Colonization--History--16th century--Sources.

Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.

Peru.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"An overview of major events that occurred in the Vilcabamba region of Peru during the final decades of Inca rule and English translations of several major period documents. A new source of important archival and archaeological information examining the fall of the Inca Empire in unprecedented detail"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Vilcabamba and the fall of the Inca (1536-1572)

Martín Hurtado de Arbieto and the Spanish colonization of Vilcabamba (1572-1589)

Document 1: Martín de Murúa and the fall of Vilcabamba : an English translation of Murúa's general history of Peru (chapters 70, 72-85)

Document 2: Baltasar de Ocampo Conejeros and the province of Vilcabamba

Document 3: Diego Rodríguez de Figueroa's journey into Vilcabamba [1565]

Document 4: Antonio Baptista de Salazar and the fall of Vilcabamba

Document 5: The death, interments, and miracles of Fray Diego Ortiz (Vilcabamba, Peru).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607324263

1607324261

OCLC:

941999997