Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World, Hardcover - R. Alan Covey

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In 1531, Pizarro led a small but well trained army along the Pacific Coast of the unexplored South America. With less than 200 men, he conquered th...

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William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (180...

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Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This t...

The development of the Inca Empire was complex and often paradoxical. This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archaeological research ...

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Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War IIPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s...

Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and G...

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The onslaught of globalization has brought with it sweeping changes to the foreign economic policy of the last 50 years. As the international polit...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Alex KitnickIllustration(s): 56 halftonesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

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