The Incas: New Perpectives by Gordon F. McEwan (PDF)

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A revealing portrait of the ancient Andean empire from its earliest development to its final capitulation to Pizarro. Defying many of the supposed rules of civilization building and lacking the advantages of a written language, hard metals, the wheel, or draft animals, the Incas forged one of the greatest imperial states in history. In recent years, researchers have employed new tools to get to the heart of this mysterious culture. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and ethnohistory, The Incas provides the most up-to-date interpretations of the culture, religion, politics, economics, and daily life available. Readers will learn how the Incas discovered medicines still in use and kept records using knotted cords; how they created masterful highways and stone bridges; and how the inhabitants of seemingly unfarmable lands came to give the world potatoes, beans, corn, squashes, tomatoes, avocados, peanuts, and peppers. 63 illustrations

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: About the Author Gordon F. McEwan is an associate professor of anthropology at Wagner College on Staten Island, the author of The Middle Horizon in the Valley of Cuzco, Peru, and the coauthor of Knowing the Inca Past. He lives in Robbinsville, New Jersey.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐All the basic information for an introduction to the Incas is there, which is good, but it is presented in a much jumbled manner. For instance, you get an overview of the Incas (on chapter 1), then the story of the conquest first (on chapter 3), followed by a sketch of a long history of the Andes up to and including the Incas (on the same chapter 3), then a survey of Inca rulers (on chapter 4, overlapping with parts of what’s been said already). Some of the specific issues (the Inca highway system, for instance) discussed in the first chapters come back in the rest of the book, sometimes with slight alterations (and no explanation as to the slight differences; compare the number of kilometers recorded on pages 3 and 115), sometimes with word-for-word repetitions of sentences used in the first chapters. You get the sense that the author was at odds to try to assemble and condense a wealth of information on the Incas.On a different note, the book looks bulkier than it should: it really ends on page 200, and the following 69 pages are a (useful) glossary, an annotated bibliography, and an index; with changes to spacing and font size, the number of those pages could have been drastically reduced. Despite the lengthy bibliography at the end, the end-of-chapter bibliographies are not significant at all (with the exception of chapter 10), and long passages refer solely to work from the forties (which is curious for a book presenting “New Perspectives”).

⭐As someone who was unfamiliar with the culture and people of the Incas – this book was extraordinary! It literally contains every bit of information about the amazing people from the beginning of the culture to its end. The book is easy to follow and set up in such a way that the whole book flows nicely. It left me wanting more and hoping that the author has written other books!

⭐My brother loved it!

⭐Book for my college daughter’s study abroad trip to Peru.

⭐Excellent and updated informationa about the Incas!

⭐This is the first time i have gotten books online for classes and i am just so happy i did. this came in early and an amazing condition! thanks!!

⭐One of the best books about the incas

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