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Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

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A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts

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. 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 retells a familiar story of conquest at a larger historical and geographical scale than ever before. This 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.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0190299126
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0190299125
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    July 1, 2020
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    9.3 x 2 x 6.1 inches
  7. Print length
    592 pages
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"Alan Covey has vividly and painstakingly traced Inca history from Mama Ocllo to the 'last coya', always with an eye to cosmic consciousness." -- Kris Lane, Bulletin of Spanish Studies

"A compelling, readable history of the Spanish conquest of the Incas." -- CHOICE

"The latter part of Covey's fascinating book deals with the four decades it took Spain to subdue rogue invaders and independent Incas. Especially good is his discussion of crown policy towards the free state of Vilcabamba, ruled by Manco and his sons until 1572." -- Times Literary Supplement

"Overall, congratulations are in order. This is a masterful (if lengthy) synthesis of the encounter era written in a smooth, engaging, and easy style. It surpasses and complements other works, such as John Hemming'sÂThe Conquest of the Incas, published over fifty years ago, that narrate the history of the same era but without the wider geographical context and religious focus. Graduate students, archaeologists, historians, and others will benefit mightily from Covey's nuanced perspective." -- Susan Ramirez, H-Net Reviews

"Inca Apocalypse is an outstanding overview of the fall of the Inca Empire written by a world class scholar."--Brian S. Bauer, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Inca Apocalypse is a magnificent book. Alan Covey draws on his own archaeological fieldwork to portray the rapid hegemony of the Inca Empire, stressing the role of powerful women. He then deploys massive research to give a detailed narrative of Pizarro's expeditions and conquest, decades of civil wars between the unscrupulous victors, and the Spanish Crown's and Catholic Church's strategies to control the Andean realm and its subject peoples."--John Hemming, author of The Conquest of the Incas

"Alan Covey has transformed the image of the Spanish occupation of the vast scattered domains of the Inca Empire, from a simple triumph of European technologies (and diseases), into a prolonged, and multi-faceted series of conquests that were not only military but also political, ecological, and, above all, religious. His book could well help to provide a model for a more nuanced account of European conquests in other parts of the globe."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present

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A compelling narrative about the fall and conquest of the Inca empire.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (July 1, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190299126
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190299125
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.16 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.3 x 2 x 6.1 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Taylor McNeil
5.0 out of 5 stars A new history of the wars between the Incas and the Spanish
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2023
We think we know the story of the conquest of the Incas: against the odds, Pizarro and a small band of Spaniards capture the Inca leader Atahualpa, hold him for ransom, then kill him and take over the Inca empire. Covey does a deep dive into primary sources and current and very old histories, and shows us that it’s nothing so simple, of course. What’s really striking about his approach is that he details in parallel fashion the origin stories that the Incas and the Spanish tell about themselves, making them fresh, and showing how both are startingly strange—and help set them on a collision course.

We know the Spanish were brutal, but so were Incas, who created powerful enemies among the peoples they subjugated as they created their empire from Ecuador to Argentina. It’s those groups, like the northern Cañaris, who ally with the Spanish and make their victories possible. Covey also details how the Inca successions created instability in the empire—and led to the civil war that gripped the empire before the Spaniards and their diseases arrived.

This was a slow-motion conquest, full of setbacks for the Spanish, who spend a good deal of time fighting among themselves, while royal Inca families try to play the Spanish off each other. In the end, of course, the Inca state is subsumed as it becomes colonized. But despite the Inca apocalypse—the destruction of their power and state—rather amazingly the native peoples have kept some of the Inca religion and ways alive to this day, a full half-millennium later. Covey tells this very complicated story with verve, a feat of historiography—and storytelling.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2021
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The text lacks a clear structure dealing with this topic of the period of early Spanish colonization and the Incas. There is also a strong bias toward English secundary sources. Ignores the schoolarship works of Susan E. Ramirez, Irene Silverblatt on gender ideologies and class, Gabriela Ramos on conversion, Inge R. Schjellerup and others.
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