Terence N. D’Altroy 
The Incas [PDF ebook] 

Preface to the Second Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition xv
1 Introduction 1
2 The Land and Its People 33
3 The Incas before the Empire 68
4 The History of the Empire: Narrative Visions 91
5 Thinking Inca 119
6 The Politics of Blood in Cuzco 174
7 The Heartland of the Empire 198
8 Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present 247
9 Family, Community, and Class 290
10 Militarism 321
11 Provincial Rule 351
12 Farmers, Herders, and Storehouses 392
13 Things and Their Masters 418
14 Invasion and Aftermath 449
References 476
Glossary of Foreign Terms 520
Index 527

Terence N. D’Altroy is Loubat Professor of American
Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and founding Director
of the Center for Archaeology at Columbia University in the City of
New York. During more than 40 years of archaeological research, he
has worked in the central highlands, Cuzco region and coast of
Peru, in Argentina, the United States, and Mexico. His publications
include Provincial Power in the Inka Empire (1992),
Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History
(co-editor, 2001), and The Incas: Inside an American Empire
(2004).