Product Description: The essays in this book span Peru's turbulent transition from Spanish rule to independence in 1824. Situated within the sphere of influence of the old Inca capital Cuzco, they represent soundings of resistance and rebellion, backed by years of archival research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The reception of the 'discovery', conquest and colonisation of Spanish America spawned a rich imaginative literature. The case studies presented in this book represent two distinct types of imagining by two diametrically different groups: literate, and in some cases erudite Europeans, and a vanquished native nobility...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)