Karen Spalding is Professor of History, University of Connecticut, and the author of Huarochiri: An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule (Stanford University Press, 1984).
Harold V. Livermore is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese, University of British Columbia.
Karen Spalding's abridgment of Livermore's translation is an
excellent example of what a sourcebook for classroom use should be.
It has a wonderfully enlightening Introduction and the texts are
well selected, allowing students to grasp the breath, complexity,
and importance of Garcilaso's work. This book enables teachers and
professors to expose their students to a unique literary,
historical, and artistic production by a mestizo who reflects on
both conquest and miscegenation in early colonial Peru. --Tamar
Herzog, Stanford University
Abridging fifteen hundred pages to a concise two-hundred-page book,
Karen Spalding has provided educators with a text that makes this
important author accessible to undergraduates. . . . By publishing
both parts of his history together . . . Spalding encourages
students to compare the rational Inca state with the corruption
anad deception of Spanish administrators--exactly as Garcilaso had
intended. . . . Spalding's abridgment of Garcilaso carefully
includes excerpts from the major issues detailed in Garcilaso's
rich history. --R. Jovita Baber, (University of
Illinois-Champaign), in The Sixteenth Century Journal
Karen Spalding has taken this acclaimed translation of both Royal
Commentaries and its less-often-read second part, General History
of Peru, to produce an outstanding abridged version of the complete
work aimed at undergraduate students but that is also appropriate
for a learned general audience curious about Peru's Inca past and
the Spanish conquest. . . . This is an excellent introduction to a
classic of Latin American Letters. By editing both parts together
and giving them equal space, Spalding enables readers to see how
Garcilaso argued that the Inca leaders prepared Andean people for
the arrival of Christianity and that this possibility was
tragically destroyed by the greed and lack of virtue of the
conquistadores, who destroyed the social and economic basis of Inca
society. --Luis Millones Figueroa, Colby College
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