How the Incas built their heartland
Subtitle: state formation and the innovation of imperial strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru
By: R. Alan Covey.
Series: History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780472114788
Subjects: Incas -- Politics and government; Incas -- Kings and rulers; Incas -- Antiquities; Political culture -- Peru -- Cuzco Region; Cuzco Region (Peru) -- Politics and government; Cuzco Region (Peru) -- Territorial expansion; Cuzco Region (Peru) -- Antiquities
Description: "In How the Incas Built Their Heartland R. Alan Covey supplements an archaeological approach with the tools of a historian, forming an interdisciplinary study of how the Incas became sufficiently powerful to embark on an unprecedented campaign of territorial expansion and how such developments related to earlier patterns of Andean statecraft."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.