Book · 1970 · Nonfiction

The Conquest of the Incas

Name: The Conquest of the Incas
Author: John Hemming

Harvest/HBJ Book · 672 pages

★ 5.9 editorial score

Fewer than two hundred Spaniards seized the Inca emperor at Cajamarca in 1532, and Hemming traces the forty years of rebellion and reprisal that followed, giving Andean witnesses equal weight with Spanish ones.

Genre

History Military history

Medium

History

Subject

Conquest Indigenous cultures Pre-Colombian society Colonialism

Setting

Peru

Time

1970Depicts Age of Exploration

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