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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820741203321

Autore

Bradley Peter T

Titolo

Habsburg Peru : images, imagination and memory / / Peter T. Bradley and David Cahill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-78138-669-2

1-84631-326-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Liverpool Latin American studies, New series ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

CahillDavid Patrick

Disciplina

985.03

Soggetti

Peru History

Peru Politics and government 1548-1820

Spain Colonies America Public opinion

Peru Social conditions 16th 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.