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The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615

The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615

Paperback

Native American HistoryGeneral World HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 1477323414
ISBN13: 9781477323410
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Apr 13 2021
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished. Now housed in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, and viewable online at www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm, the original manuscript has 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings that constitute the most accurate graphic depiction of Inca and colonial Peruvian material culture ever done.

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