On the Wings of Time Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru by Sabine MacCormack ISBN 13: 9780691126746

Princeton University Press, 2006-10-23. Hardcover. Good.

Princeton University Press, 2006-10-23. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Princeton. 2006. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691126747. 50 halftones. 342 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Ancient Rome Incas Peru Spain. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the Andes forever, the civil society that did emerge was not the result of Andeans and Creoles passively absorbing the wisdom of ancient Rome. Rather, Sabine MacCormack proposes that civil society was born of the intellectual endeavors that commenced with the invasion itself, as the invaders sought to understand an array of cultures. Looking at the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people who wrote about the Andean region that became Peru, MacCormack reveals how the lens of Rome had a profound influence on Spanish understanding of the Incan… Read More