{"product_id":"the-cambridge-history-of-the-native-peoples-of-the-americas-9780521630757","title":"The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume surveys research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present. It concentrates on continental South America, but also discusses peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistically or culturally connected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Cambridge History is an intensely academic publication whose conception, structure and coverage make it a benchmark for future work. … rich store of information and insight … No one interested or involved in indigenous South America can afford to ignore such a prodigious feat of modern scholarship.' The Times Higher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Frank Salomon and Stuart Schwartz; 1. Testimonies: the making and reading of native South American historical sources; 2. Ethnography in South America: the first two hundred years; 3. The earliest South American lifeways; 4. The maritime, highland, forest dynamic and the origins of complex culture; 5. The evolution of Andean diversity: regional formations, 500 BCE–600 CE; 6. Andean urbanism and statecraft, 550–1450 CE; 7. Chiefdoms: the prevalence and persistance of 'Señorios Naturales', 1400 to European conquest; 8. Archaeology of the Caribbean region; 9. Pre-history of the Southern Cone; 10. The fourfold domain: Inka power and its social foundations; 11. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: the Caribbean, 1492–1580; 12. The crises and transformations of invaded societies, 1500–1580: Andean area; 13. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: Coastal Brazil in the sixteenth century; 14. The crises and transformations of invaded societies in the La Plata Basin (1535–1650); 15. The colonial condition in the Quechua-Aymara heartland, 1570–1780; 16. Warfare, reorganization, and readaptation at the margins of Spanish rule: the Southern margin (1573–1882); 17. The Western margins of Amazonia from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767705239895,"sku":"9780521630757","price":166.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521630757.jpg?v=1758714475","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cambridge-history-of-the-native-peoples-of-the-americas-9780521630757","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}