On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru

by Sabine MacCormack

Book Overview

Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the Andes forever, the civil society that did emerge was not the result of Andeans and Creoles passively absorbing the wisdom of ancient Rome. Rather, Sabine MacCormack proposes that civil society was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691126747
• ISBN13: 9780691126746
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"