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The Incas (Ancient Peoples and Places)
Craig Morris
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Description for The Incas (Ancient Peoples and Places)
Paperback. In less than a century the Incas rose from obscure origins to build one of the largest empires of the ancient world. Series: Ancient Peoples and Places. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white line drawings, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 720.
The Incas built one of the largest empires of the ancient world. The sheer scale makes their achievement truly remarkable. At its zenith it extended northwards from the Inca capital Cusco along the Andes to embrace parts of modern Peru and Ecuador, and southwards into Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Uniquely, the authors look in detail at Cusco and at the four parts of the empire, following the vast road system to explore not just famous sites such as Machu Picchu, but all the major regional settlements. This vivid portrait shows how the Incas ruled some peoples directly but allowed others ... Read more
The Incas built one of the largest empires of the ancient world. The sheer scale makes their achievement truly remarkable. At its zenith it extended northwards from the Inca capital Cusco along the Andes to embrace parts of modern Peru and Ecuador, and southwards into Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Uniquely, the authors look in detail at Cusco and at the four parts of the empire, following the vast road system to explore not just famous sites such as Machu Picchu, but all the major regional settlements. This vivid portrait shows how the Incas ruled some peoples directly but allowed others ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Ancient Peoples and Places
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500289440
SKU
9780500289440
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About Craig Morris
The late Craig Morris was Curator of Anthropology and Senior Vice President of the American Museum of Natural History, NewYork. Adriana von Hagen is co-director of the Leymebamba Museum in Chachapoyas, Peru.
Reviews for The Incas (Ancient Peoples and Places)
'A lively, deeply informed and highly readable account of the last great empire of pre-Columbian South America' - Gary Urton, Harvard University 'I know of no other book in English that provides such a good region by region description of the Inca empire ... Both a useful review of the main Inca sites and a new perspective on the structure ... Read more