On the wings of time
Subtitle: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru
By: Sabine MacCormack
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780691126746
Subjects: Incas -- Historiography; Incas -- First contact with Europeans; Incas in literature -- History and criticism; Indian literature -- Andes Region -- History and criticism; Spanish literature -- Andes Region -- History and criticism; Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-310) and index
Table of contents: title: Universals and particulars : themes and persons; title: Writing and the pursuit of origins; title: Conquest, civil war, and political life; title: The emergence of patria : cities and the law; title: Works of nature and works of free will; title: "The discourse of my life" : what language can do; title: The Incas, Rome, and Peru; title: Epilogue: Ancient texts : prophecies and predictions, causes and judgments