The Kingdom of the Sun: A Short History of Peru,

by Luis Martin and Luis Martín

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684139391
• ISBN13: 9780684139395
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A short and readable general history of Peru

Here is a cultural, economic and political history of Peru covering the period from the Incan regional hegemony, inclusive, through the colonial period up to what was the present day when the book was publisher (i.e. through the reform government ruling in 1971). The author, Luis Martin, a native of Spain who taught in Peru, was at the time of publishing a professor of history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. This is very well-written book, in logical organization as well as stylistically, and makes Peru's history accessible to the general reader with no previous background in the subject. I found the author to fair and even-handed, equally critical of all sides, Indian and Spaniard, right and left, as he saw fit by the standards of civilization, and I think that most readers (not ideologues of whatever stripe, perhaps) would find that his standards are those which may reasonably be applied in all historical periods. The book includes a chronology, a glossary (mostly of Quechua words as well as Spanish words used in very specific ways), a bibliographie raisonnee, and an index.