Inca Apocalypse, R. Alan Covey
Inca Apocalypse, R. Alan Covey
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Inca Apocalypse
The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

Author: R. Alan Covey

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Unabridged: 19 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/21/2020


Synopsis

Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the "Cajamarca miracle"—in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an Inca who led an army numbering in the tens of thousands—demonstrated the intervention of divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of European technological and immunological superiority.

Inca Apocalypse develops a new perspective on the Spanish invasion and transformation of the Inca realm. R. Alan Covey's sweeping narrative traces the origins of the Inca and Spanish empires, identifying how Andean and Iberian beliefs about the world's end shaped the collision of the two civilizations. Rather than a decisive victory on the field at Cajamarca, the Spanish conquest was an uncertain, disruptive process that reshaped the worldviews of those on each side of the conflict. The survivors built colonial Peru, a new society that never forgot the Inca imperial legacy or the enduring supernatural power of the Andean landscape.

Covey's rich new history, based on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, illuminates mysteries that still surround the last days of the largest empire in the pre–Columbian Americas.

About R. Alan Covey

R. Alan Covey is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark

On November 15, 1632, a group of Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro arrived in the town of Cajamarca on the Andean highlands. Outside the evacuated town were encamped thousands of Inca warriors led by their ruler, Atahualpa, who was concluding a civil war waged against his dissolute brot......more

Goodreads review by Emelie

This book started out very interesting but soon it became jumpy and hard to follow and repetitive.......more

Goodreads review by Carlos

Very informative, but sometimes hard to follow.......more

Goodreads review by Piotr

Repetitive and not focused on most important events.......more

Goodreads review by Doug

Great book. I wish I had this when I lived in Peru. I enjoyed the telling of Spanish history at the same time as the history in Peru. I’m surprised the author hasn’t been murdered by all Spaniards and all Catholics for revealing how barbaric they were in this destruction of indigenous peoples and cul......more