The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics

"One of the best overviews yet of Peruvian history and politics"

- The Rough Guide to Perú

"This is an extremely deep, broad, and insighful collection on Perú"

- Jorge Castañeda

Open Veins of Latin America / Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina

A superbly written, excellently tranlated, and powerfully persuasive expose which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read." - Choice, American Library Association

The Incas / Garcilaso inca de la Vega

The birth and death of greatest and most powerful empire of pre-columbian America is of mayor interest and importance. This dramatic narrative by one of the last Inca princes traces the legends surrounding the rise of his people, their wars, sexual customs, and religion. It ends with the arrival of Pizarro and Spanish, the capture, imprisonment, and execution of Athaualpa, the last Inca, and the beginning of the spanish hegemony

"A classic of South American literature...This is its first appearance in a complete and accurate form. It is a joy to read..." - The New Yorker