History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas eBook William Hickling Prescott
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History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas eBook William Hickling Prescott
Although 150-years old, and thus without the benefit of more recent discoveries, this well-documented book is important to understand both the Inca theocracy and the shocking greed and brutality -- but also extraordinary courage -- of the handful of Spanish conquerors. (It is of a piece that they ended up devouring each other, a story which the book tells in cold and unsparing detail.) Those interested in the history and the region would do well to follow the History of the Conquest of Peru by reading the very recent "Inca", by Geoff Micks -- a splendid book weaving research and fiction to illustrate through the narrative of a high-ranking Inca noble the orderly complexity and achievements of the Inca system as well as the internal fissures without which the conquest could never have taken place.Product details
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History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas eBook William Hickling Prescott Reviews
Good stuff. Old fashioned language and he overdoes his analysis of source documents and writers. But, a gripping tale of greed and man's inhumanity to man. The Pizzaro brothers do not come off well.
A bit lengthy but informative.
This book starts with the an introduction of Incas before the Spanish arrival. Even from the Spanish perspective, Incas were peaceful, harmonious, and had no interests in things like gold and silver as currencies of trade. The intriguing part of this introduction is how similar this is to the Tang Dynasty in China when people slept with unlocked doors, and lost items can be retrieved with relative ease. The difference, it seems, is the relatively primitive nature of how the Incas interpreted the Sun and God, which seems logical to connect the nature of the original incas from China but lost contact back in China so they interpreted based on their impressions instead of continuous improvements. This can be invaluable to illustrate the need for Moral Innovations.
The Spanish arrived after Pope Alexander VI, who was of Spanish descent, gave the land to the Spain in 1494 under the Treaty of Tordesillas. Hernan Cortes had conquered the Mexicans, when the Pizarro family of illiterates, led by the illegitimate son Francisco Pizarro, took advantage of the offer by the Half Aztec Half Incas King Atahuallpa soon after he imprisoned his Incas brother Huascar. Atahuallpa was held hostage in exchange for 124 tons of gold plus jewellry, then was executed after the random was paid. Atahuallpa was also under severe duress to convert to Christianity just before he was executed, in hopes of trying to save his family, but only saved his burial place back in Quito.
There is nothing in this book that talk about how much gold and silver were taken from the New World, and there is insufficient information on Land Rights in the New World. What law did the Spanish invoke to transfer the land rights, and the associated minerals underground, to the Spanish? It was all guns and exploitations. All these activities were taken under the name of Christianity, specifically Catholicism. Is this really how Christianity want to be remembered? At the end, Gasca seems to be a Moral Innovator who stabilized the turmoil in current day Peru, but there is also nothing in this book about the national boundaries of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivai, Chile, Columbia, Panama and Mexico. The cities mentioned in this book cross many country boundaries today.
As the book suggested that Incas may have been Chinese or at least in contact with China, if the Incas had maintained a dialogue with the Chinese, then the Chinese would have been better prepared to negotiated with the British in the 19th century, and perhaps the Opium War could have been averted.
How can Spain expect an orderly empire by sending people like Pizarro to the New World? King Philip II of Spain was collecting 20% of everything found in the New World, just so he can assemble his Armada to try to defeat England. His efforts were annihilated in 1588 when he lost his Armada, but alerted the French and the British that there is a lot of money in the New World, so the French landed in Canada in 1604, and Puritans in 1618. That is another story. We need to better understand a world of Moral Innovations...
I thought this was another book I read before. It was a good book.
Tremendous information, on the conquest of Peru, including valuable information of the Aztecs and Mayans. It takes a little time to get accustomed to the verbosity of an 1800's historical document.
A strange book as over half is English, but then it finishes the thought in Spanish. Sounds odd, but it is quite long and I feel that I got a good idea of the Spanish Conquest of Peru and Ecuador all the same. Highly informative.
Interesting material but not easy to read. The writing style was not to my liking and yet I gave it three stars because some of the content was interesting.
Although 150-years old, and thus without the benefit of more recent discoveries, this well-documented book is important to understand both the Inca theocracy and the shocking greed and brutality -- but also extraordinary courage -- of the handful of Spanish conquerors. (It is of a piece that they ended up devouring each other, a story which the book tells in cold and unsparing detail.) Those interested in the history and the region would do well to follow the History of the Conquest of Peru by reading the very recent "Inca", by Geoff Micks -- a splendid book weaving research and fiction to illustrate through the narrative of a high-ranking Inca noble the orderly complexity and achievements of the Inca system as well as the internal fissures without which the conquest could never have taken place.
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