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On the wings of time : Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacCormack, Sabine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Incas > Historiography.
Incas > First contact with Europeans.
Incas in literature > History and criticism.
Indian literature > Andes Region > History and criticism.
Spanish literature > Andes Region > History and criticism.
Peru > History > Conquest, 1522-1548.
Table of Contents:
  • Universals and particulars : themes and persons
  • Writing and the pursuit of origins
  • Conquest, civil war, and political life
  • The emergence of patria : cities and the law
  • Works of nature and works of free will
  • "The discourse of my life" : what language can do
  • The Incas, Rome, and Peru
  • Epilogue: Ancient texts : prophecies and predictions, causes and judgments.