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The Men of Cajamarca - A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru (Paperback)
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The Men of Cajamarca - A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru (Paperback)
Series: LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
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In November 1532, a group of 168 Spaniards seized the Inca emperor
Atahuallpa in the town of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian
highlands. Their act, quickly taken as a symbol of the conquest of
a vast empire, brought them unprecedented rewards in gold and
silver; it made them celebrities, gave them first choice of
positions of honor and power in the new Peru of the Spaniards, and
opened up the possibility of a splendid life at home in Spain, if
they so desired. Thus they became men of consequence, at the
epicenter of a swift and irrevocable transformation of the Andean
region. Yet before that memorable day in Cajamarca they had been
quite unexceptional, a reasonable sampling of Spaniards on
expeditions all over the Indies at the time of the great conquests.
The Men of Cajamarca is perhaps the fullest treatment yet published
of any group of early Spaniards in America. Part I examines general
types, characteristics, and processes visible in the group as
representative Spanish immigrants, central to the establishment of
a Spanish presence in the New World's richest land. The intention
is to contribute to a changing image of the Spanish conqueror, a
man motivated more by pragmatic self-interest than by any love of
adventure, capable and versatile as often as illiterate and rough.
Aiming at permanence more than new landfalls, these men created the
governmental units and settlement distribution of much of Spanish
America and set lasting patterns for a new society. Part II
contains the men's individual biographies, ranging from a few lines
for the most obscure to many pages of analysis for the
best-documented figures. The author traces the lives of the men to
their beginnings in Spain and follows their careers after the
episode in Cajamarca.
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