How the Incas built their heartland:state formation and the innovation of imperial strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru
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University of Michigan Press,
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Publisher Address: | Ann Arbor |
Publication Dates: | c2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 333 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0472114786 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780472114788 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | K778 |
CLC: | K778.2 |
Call Number: | K778.2/C873 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-320) and index. A new orientation for Inca studies -- State formation, imperial expansion, and the history of Inca research in the Cusco region -- Ecology and risk reduction in the Inca heartland -- Wari imperialism and local political competition in Cusco -- Setting the stage for Inca state formation (AD 1000-1200) -- The formation of the Inca state -- Elite interaction and local responses to Inca expansion -- State expansion, economic intensification, and local resistance -- The imperial extrapolation of Inca state expansion strategies -- The transformation of the Inca heartland. |