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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782251403321

Autore

Bradley Peter T. <1943->

Titolo

Habsburg Peru : images, imagination and memory / / Peter T. Bradley and David Cahill [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-78138-669-2

1-84631-326-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 167 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Liverpool Latin American studies ; ; new series, 2

Disciplina

985.03

Soggetti

Public opinion - Great Britain - History

Visitors, Foreign - Great Britain - Attitudes

British - Mexico - Attitudes

Incas - Social life and customs - 17th century

Peru Foreign public opinion, British History

Peru Description and travel

Cuzco (Peru) Social life and customs 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Part I: Peru in English: The Early History of the English Fascination with Peru; 1: Introduction; 2: Historical Texts; 3: Accounts of Sea Voyages and Travel; 4: Collections of Voyages and Travels; 5: Geographies and Atlases; 6: Documents, Monographs and Theatre; 7: Conclusion; Part II: The Inca and Inca Symbolism in Popular Festive Culture: The Religious Processions of Seventeenth-Century Cuzco; 8: Exploring Incan Identity; 9: The Inca and the Politics of Nostalgia; 10: The Inca Motif in Colonial Fiestas - I; 11: The Inca Motif in Colonial Fiestas - II

12: ConclusionAppendix I; Appendix II; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The reception of the 'discovery', conquest and colonisation of Spanish America spawned a rich imaginative literature. The case studies presented in this book represent two distinct types of imagining by two diametrically different groups: literate, and in some cases erudite Europeans, and a vanquished native nobility. The former endeavoured



to make sense of Spain's (and Portugal's) 'marvellous possessions' in the New World with the limited conceptual tools at their disposal, the latter to construct a colonial identity based on their shared ancestral memory while incorporating elements from the even more wondrous Hispanic culture that had overwhelmed them.