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Book Synopsis
A new translation and introduction to an invaluable account of Inca history and mythology.

Table of Contents
  • Preface (Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and The History of the Incas (Brian S. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster)
  • Second Part of the General History Called Indica (Translated and Edited by Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith)
    • Cover letter to King Philip II of Spain
    • [1] Division of the history
    • [6] The origin fable of these barbarous Indians of Peru, according to their blind opinions
    • [7] The fable about the second age and the creation of these barbarous Indians, according to their account
    • [8] Ancient tribes of the provinces of Peru and its regions
    • [9] First settlers of the Cuzco Valley
    • [10] How the Incas began to tyrannize the lands of the tribes
    • [11] The origin fable of the Incas of Cuzco
    • [12] The route that these companies of the Incas took to the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they mix with the history
    • [13] The entry of the Incas into the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they tell about it there
    • [14] The disagreements between Manco Capac and the Alcabizas over the fields
    • [15] The life of Cinchi Roca, the second Inca, begins
    • [16] The life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca
    • [17] The life of Mayta Capac, the fourth Inca
    • [18] The life of Capac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca
    • [19] The life of Inca Roca, the sixth Inca
    • [20] The life of Tito Cusi Hualpa, whom they commonly call Yahuar Huacac
    • [21] What happened after the Ayarmacas kidnapped Tito Cusi Hualpa
    • [22] How it became known that Yahuar Huacac was alive
    • [23] Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh Inca, begins the Incaship only after the death of his father
    • [24] The life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca
    • [25] The provinces and towns that Viracocha Inca, the eighth Inca, conquered and tyrannized
    • [26] The life of Inca Yupanqui, or Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca
    • [27] The Chancas attack Cuzco
    • [28] The second victory that Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui had over the Chancas
    • [29] Inca Yupanqui Inca raises himself as Inca and takes the tassel without the consent of his father
    • [30] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the city of Cuzco
    • [31] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the House of the Sun and establishes new idols in it
    • [32] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates [the area] two leagues around Cuzco
    • [33] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui kills his older brother named Inca Urcon
    • [34] The nations that Pachacuti Inca destroyed and the towns he attacked; first, Tocay Capac, the cinchi of the Ayarmacas, and [then the] destruction of the Cuyos
    • [35] The other nations that Inca Yupanqui conquered by himself and with Inca Roca
    • [36] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui endows the House of the Sun with great wealth
    • [37] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of Collasuyu
    • [38] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends [Capac Yupanqui] to conquer the provinces of Chinchaysuyu
    • [39] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui establishes mitimaes in all the lands he had conquered
    • [40] The Collas, sons of Chuchic Capac, rise up against Inca Yupanqui, seeking their freedom
    • [41] Amaru Topa Inca and Apu Paucar Usno continue the conquest of the Collao and defeat the Collas once again
    • [42] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui appoints his son Topa Inca Yupanqui as his successor
    • [43] Pachacuti arms his son Topa Inca as a knight
    • [44] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends his son Topa Inca Yupanqui to conquer Chinchaysuyu
    • [45] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui inspects the provinces conquered by him and his captains
    • [46] Topa Inca Yupanqui sets out a second time by order of his father to conquer what remained of Chinchaysuyu
    • [47] The death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
    • [48] The life of Topa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca
    • [49] Topa Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of the Andes
    • [50] Topa Inca Yupanqui goes to conquer and put down the risen Collas
    • [51] Topa Inca makes the yanayacos
    • [52] Topa Inca Yupanqui orders a second inspection of the land and does other things
    • [53] Topa Inca builds the fortress of Cuzco
    • [54] The death of Topa Inca Yupanqui
    • [55] The life of Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca
    • [56] They give the tassel of Inca to Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca
    • [57] The first things that Huayna Capac did after being invested as Inca
    • [58] Huayna Capac conquers the Chachapoyas
    • [59] Huayna Capac inspects all the land from Quito to Chile
    • [60] Huayna Capac wages war on the Quitos, Pastos, Carangues, Cayambes, and Guancabilicas
    • [61] The Chiriguanas leave to wage war in Peru against those conquered by the Incas
    • [62] What Huayna Capac did after those wars
    • [63] The life of Huascar Inca, the last Inca, and that of Atahualpa
    • [64] Huascar Inca leaves in person to fight against Chalco Chima and Quizquiz, Atahualpa's captains
    • [65] The battle between the forces of Atahualpa and Huascar and the imprisonment of Huascar
    • [66] What Chalco Chima and Quizquiz said to Huascar Inca and the others of his group
    • [67] The cruelties that Atahualpa ordered be committed against the defeated and captured men of Huascar
    • [68] News of the Spaniards reached Atahualpa
    • [69] The Spaniards reach Cajamarca and capture Atahualpa, who orders that Huascar be killed, and he also dies
    • [70] Noting how these Incas were oath-breakers and tyrants against their own, in addition to being against the natives of the land
    • [71] Summary account of the time that the Incas of Peru lasted
    • Statement of the proofs and verification of this history
  • Appendix 1: Sample Translation
  • Appendix 2: Editions of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's The History of the Incas
  • Appendix 3: The Rule of the Incas, Following Dates Provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa
  • Appendix 4: The Incas of Cuzco, Following Information Provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/02/2007
      ISBN13: 9780292714854, 978-0292714854
      ISBN10: 0292714858
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      Book Synopsis
      A new translation and introduction to an invaluable account of Inca history and mythology.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface (Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith)
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and The History of the Incas (Brian S. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster)
      • Second Part of the General History Called Indica (Translated and Edited by Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith)
        • Cover letter to King Philip II of Spain
        • [1] Division of the history
        • [6] The origin fable of these barbarous Indians of Peru, according to their blind opinions
        • [7] The fable about the second age and the creation of these barbarous Indians, according to their account
        • [8] Ancient tribes of the provinces of Peru and its regions
        • [9] First settlers of the Cuzco Valley
        • [10] How the Incas began to tyrannize the lands of the tribes
        • [11] The origin fable of the Incas of Cuzco
        • [12] The route that these companies of the Incas took to the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they mix with the history
        • [13] The entry of the Incas into the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they tell about it there
        • [14] The disagreements between Manco Capac and the Alcabizas over the fields
        • [15] The life of Cinchi Roca, the second Inca, begins
        • [16] The life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca
        • [17] The life of Mayta Capac, the fourth Inca
        • [18] The life of Capac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca
        • [19] The life of Inca Roca, the sixth Inca
        • [20] The life of Tito Cusi Hualpa, whom they commonly call Yahuar Huacac
        • [21] What happened after the Ayarmacas kidnapped Tito Cusi Hualpa
        • [22] How it became known that Yahuar Huacac was alive
        • [23] Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh Inca, begins the Incaship only after the death of his father
        • [24] The life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca
        • [25] The provinces and towns that Viracocha Inca, the eighth Inca, conquered and tyrannized
        • [26] The life of Inca Yupanqui, or Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca
        • [27] The Chancas attack Cuzco
        • [28] The second victory that Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui had over the Chancas
        • [29] Inca Yupanqui Inca raises himself as Inca and takes the tassel without the consent of his father
        • [30] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the city of Cuzco
        • [31] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the House of the Sun and establishes new idols in it
        • [32] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates [the area] two leagues around Cuzco
        • [33] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui kills his older brother named Inca Urcon
        • [34] The nations that Pachacuti Inca destroyed and the towns he attacked; first, Tocay Capac, the cinchi of the Ayarmacas, and [then the] destruction of the Cuyos
        • [35] The other nations that Inca Yupanqui conquered by himself and with Inca Roca
        • [36] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui endows the House of the Sun with great wealth
        • [37] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of Collasuyu
        • [38] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends [Capac Yupanqui] to conquer the provinces of Chinchaysuyu
        • [39] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui establishes mitimaes in all the lands he had conquered
        • [40] The Collas, sons of Chuchic Capac, rise up against Inca Yupanqui, seeking their freedom
        • [41] Amaru Topa Inca and Apu Paucar Usno continue the conquest of the Collao and defeat the Collas once again
        • [42] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui appoints his son Topa Inca Yupanqui as his successor
        • [43] Pachacuti arms his son Topa Inca as a knight
        • [44] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends his son Topa Inca Yupanqui to conquer Chinchaysuyu
        • [45] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui inspects the provinces conquered by him and his captains
        • [46] Topa Inca Yupanqui sets out a second time by order of his father to conquer what remained of Chinchaysuyu
        • [47] The death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
        • [48] The life of Topa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca
        • [49] Topa Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of the Andes
        • [50] Topa Inca Yupanqui goes to conquer and put down the risen Collas
        • [51] Topa Inca makes the yanayacos
        • [52] Topa Inca Yupanqui orders a second inspection of the land and does other things
        • [53] Topa Inca builds the fortress of Cuzco
        • [54] The death of Topa Inca Yupanqui
        • [55] The life of Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca
        • [56] They give the tassel of Inca to Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca
        • [57] The first things that Huayna Capac did after being invested as Inca
        • [58] Huayna Capac conquers the Chachapoyas
        • [59] Huayna Capac inspects all the land from Quito to Chile
        • [60] Huayna Capac wages war on the Quitos, Pastos, Carangues, Cayambes, and Guancabilicas
        • [61] The Chiriguanas leave to wage war in Peru against those conquered by the Incas
        • [62] What Huayna Capac did after those wars
        • [63] The life of Huascar Inca, the last Inca, and that of Atahualpa
        • [64] Huascar Inca leaves in person to fight against Chalco Chima and Quizquiz, Atahualpa's captains
        • [65] The battle between the forces of Atahualpa and Huascar and the imprisonment of Huascar
        • [66] What Chalco Chima and Quizquiz said to Huascar Inca and the others of his group
        • [67] The cruelties that Atahualpa ordered be committed against the defeated and captured men of Huascar
        • [68] News of the Spaniards reached Atahualpa
        • [69] The Spaniards reach Cajamarca and capture Atahualpa, who orders that Huascar be killed, and he also dies
        • [70] Noting how these Incas were oath-breakers and tyrants against their own, in addition to being against the natives of the land
        • [71] Summary account of the time that the Incas of Peru lasted
        • Statement of the proofs and verification of this history
      • Appendix 1: Sample Translation
      • Appendix 2: Editions of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's The History of the Incas
      • Appendix 3: The Rule of the Incas, Following Dates Provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa
      • Appendix 4: The Incas of Cuzco, Following Information Provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa
      • Notes
      • Glossary
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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