by William Hickling Prescott · ISTMO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470901737
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«Historia de la conquista del Perú» is the historical essay by William Hickling Prescott, published by Istmo in paperback (642 pages, in Spanish).
A classic work of historiography that reconstructs the end of the Inca Empire and the arrival of the Spanish in present-day Peru. Prescott examines Andean civilization, military campaigns, cultural clashes, and the decisive figures of the process, from Inca rulers to conquerors, in a documented and highly influential account.
Originally published in 1847, it belongs to the Mundus Novus collection (no. 2) of Ediciones Istmo.
For readers interested in the colonial history of the Americas and the great classics of 19th-century historiography.
William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th-century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory, also called "photographic memory".
