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Cuzco
A story of change in the Inca capital told through its artefacts, architecture, and historical documents Through objects, buildings, and colonial texts, this book tells the story of how Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, was transformed into a Spanish colonial city. When Spaniards invaded and conquered Peru in the 16th century, they installed in Cuzco not only a government of their own but also a distinctly European architectural style. Layered atop the characteristic stone walls, plazas, and trapezoidal portals of the former Inca town were columns, arcades, and even a cathedral. This fascinating book charts the history of Cuzco through its architecture, revealing traces of colonial encounters still visible in the modern city. A remarkable collection of primary sources reconstructs this narrative: writings by secretaries to colonial administrators, histories conveyed to Spanish translators by native Andeans, and legal documents and reports. Cuzco's infrastructure reveals how the city, wracked by devastating siege and insurrection, was reborn as an ethnically and stylistically diverse community.
Inka Bird Idiom
From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the eastern Andean foothills, and the highlands. She shows how birds and feathers shaped Inka politics, launched wars, and initiated peace. Feathers provided protection against unpredictable enemies, made possible communication with deities, and brought an imagined Inka past into a political present. Richly textured contexts of feathered objects recovered from Late Horizon archaeological records and from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts written by Spanish interlocutors enable new insights into Inka visions of interspecies relationships, an Inka ontology, and Inka views of the place of the human in their ecology. Inka Bird Idiom invites reconsideration of the deep intellectual ties that connected the Amazon and the mountain forests with the Andean highlands and the Pacific coast.
Francisco López de Gómara's General History of the Indies
This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies. Including substantial critical annotations and providing access to various readings and passages added to or removed from the successive editions of the 1550s, this translation expands the archive of texts available to English speakers reconsidering the various aspects of the European invasion of America. General History of the Indies was the first universal history of the recent discoveries and conquests of the New World made available to the Old World audience. At publication it consisted of two parts: the first a ge...
The Europa International Foundation Directory 2006
A comprehensive guide to foundation activity on a world-wide scale.
Jesuits and Asian Goods in the Iberian Empires, 1580–1700
This book analyzes the exchange relations between the colonies of the Iberian Empires, starting from two cities ports, Buenos Aires and Macau in the period 1580-1700. Agents, who were not professional traders such as the members of the Society of Jesus, and the circulation and consumption of Asian goods in the local populations of Buenos Aires and Macau, were analyzed. Both cases of study will show us how these non-state agents- the Jesuits- build their own networks and exchange channels to Chinese goods distribution (i.e silk, porcelain, musk, amber and others) between Asia and Latin American. This book intends to break with the local scheme of Jesuit studies in order to combine the local scale with analysis of inter-regional processes on a continental scale, from a comparative perspective.
Breve historia de España I: las raíces
Comenzando en la Prehistoria se describe el paso por Neolítico y edad de los metales para llegar a la romanización de la península Ibérica, a pesar de la gran oposición indígena inicial. Se describe la explotación metalúrgica y el desarrollo de la agricultura para llegar a la invasión árabe y posterior establecimiento del califato Omeya en Córdoba. La narración de la Reconquista se aborda desde un punto de vista socioeconómico y cultural. La aventura americana llevó al establecimiento del Imperio español, pero pronto llegaría la decadencia en lo político y económico a España, aunque no en lo artístico, ya que el esplendor cultural bautizará a esta época como el Siglo de Oro español.
Breve historia de la vida cotidiana de la Grecia clásica
Descubra la vida y cultura en la brillante Grecia Clásica. Su sistema político fragmentado y los derechos de los ciudadanos, la educación, las artes y el ocio, la vivienda y el urbanismo, sus ceremonias y mitología, los viajes, la alimentación y el mundo militar. Un recorrido riguroso y didáctico por la sabiduría, costumbres y tradiciones de la cuna de la civilización occidental.
Breve historia de la Guerras Púnicas
Amílcar Barca, Asdrúbal, Escipión el Africano, Cátulo, Aníbal Barca,... Conozca los mayores enfrentamientos de la Antigüedad. Las dos guerras mundiales en que se enfrentaron Cártago y Roma.En el siglo III a. C. dos grandes potencias, Roma y Cartago, se encontraban preparadas para iniciar una larga lucha por conseguir la hegemonía en el Mediterráneo occidental. Del resultado de esta contienda se iba a dirimir el destino del mundo tal y como lo conocemos en la actualidad. Las guerras púnicas enfrentaron a dos ejércitos perfectamente adiestrados para el combate, con dos visiones distintas a la hora de planificar las principales operaciones militares, y con unos experimentados general...
