Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts
Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the
importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the
highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the Cajamarca miracle-in
which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an
Inca who led an army
numbering in the tens of thousands-demonstrated the intervention of
divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of
European technological and immunological superiority.
Inca Apocalypse develops a new perspective on the Spanish invasion and
transformation of the Inca realm. Alan Covey's sweeping narrative traces
the origins of the Inca and Spanish empires, identifying how Andean and
Iberian beliefs about the world's end shaped the collision of the two
civilizations.
Rather than a decisive victory on the field at Cajamarca, the Spanish
conquest was an uncertain, disruptive process that reshaped the
worldviews of those on each side of the conflict.. The survivors built
colonial Peru, a new society that never forgot the Inca imperial legacy
or the enduring
supernatural power of the Andean landscape.
Covey retells a familiar story of conquest at a larger historical and
geographical scale than ever before. This rich new history, based on the
latest archaeological and historical evidence, illuminates mysteries
that still surround the last days of the largest empire in the
pre-Columbian Americas.