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Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
In November 1532, a group of 168 Spaniards seized the Inca emperor Atahuallpa in the town of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian highlands. Their act, quickly taken as a symbol of the conquest of a vast empire, brought them unprecedented rewards in gold and silver; it made them celebrities, gave them first choice of positions of honor and power in the new Peru of the Spaniards, and opened up the possibility of a splendid life at home in Spain, if they so desired. Thus they became men of consequence, at the epicenter of a swift and irrevocable transformation of the Andean region. Yet before that memorable day in Cajamarca they had been quite unexceptional, a reasonable sampling of Spaniards o...
Edición crítica de Mario Ferreccio Podestá y Raissa Kordic Riquelme, estudio preliminar de Cedomil Goic.
En este libro no se pretende hacer un balance de aportaciones recientes, sino que, teniendo como eje de desarrollo el concepto de "familia" en un amplio sentido, demográfico y social, se intenta integrar lasperspectivas micro-analíticas -estudio de familias específicamente desarrolladas a ambos lados del Atlántico, familias virreinales, de la nobleza, la administración e incluso la Iglesia– y las regionales –de territorios especialmente afectados por el paso de sus habitantes a América–, al lado de la dimensión "macro" derivada de los estudios de las estructuras familiares en América y en la Península Ibérica y de las migraciones entre ambos espacios. Ese enfoque múltiple es...
"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.
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