

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
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 07/21/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Religion, Latin American History
Synopsis
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.