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Aeneid
Alcalde
Alfonso X of Castile
Amun
Ancient Rome
Andean civilizations
Andes
Arrival and Departure
Atahualpa
Ataulf
Atoll
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Bartolome de las Casas
Caprera
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Chronology
Classical antiquity
Clime
Coat of arms
Conquistador
Coral reef
Cusco
Deity
Diego de Almagro
Djed
Edmundo O'Gorman
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Expedition of the Thousand
Francisco de Vitoria
Francisco Pizarro
From Time Immemorial
Gonzalo Pizarro
Grammar
Greeks
Hernando Pizarro
Inca Empire
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Interdependence
Late Antiquity
Livy
Mendes
Multitude
Naples
Narrative
New Laws
Noun
Oidor
Orosius
Pachacuti
Pax Romana
Periodization
Persis
Pharsalia
Phrase
Plus ultra (motto)
Proconsul
Quintilian
Quipu
Reign
Renaissance humanism
Southern Italy
Spaniards
Sucre
Sulla
Tacitus
Toco
Under arms
Vassal
Virgil
Vitruvius
Warfare
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691140957
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jan 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 empire. Tracing the varied events that shaped Peru as a country, MacCormack shows how Roman and classical literature provided a framework for the construal of historical experience.
She turns to issues vital to Latin American history, such as the role of language in conquest, the interpretation of civil war, and the founding of cities, to paint a dynamic picture of the genesis of renewed political life in the Andean region. Examining how missionaries, soldiers, native lords, and other writers employed classical concepts to forge new understandings of Peruvian society and history, the book offers a complete reassessment of the ways in which colonial Peru made the classical heritage uniquely its own.
Sabine MacCormack is Theodore Hesburgh Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include "Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru" (Princeton).
