Title Page; Contents; Preface; Part I: Peru in English: The Early History of the English Fascination with Peru; 1: Introduction; 2: Historical Texts; 3: Accounts of Sea Voyages and Travel; 4: Collections of Voyages and Travels; 5: Geographies and Atlases; 6: Documents, Monographs and Theatre; 7: Conclusion; Part II: The Inca and Inca Symbolism in Popular Festive Culture: The Religious Processions of Seventeenth-Century Cuzco; 8: Exploring Incan Identity; 9: The Inca and the Politics of Nostalgia; 10: The Inca Motif in Colonial Fiestas -- I; 11: The Inca Motif in Colonial Fiestas -- II
12: ConclusionAppendix I; Appendix II; Index
Summary
The colonization of Spanish America spawned a literature in which prosaic accounts and official press releases were mixed with reports of real and imaginary travellers. These two case studies represent two types of imagining
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-155) and index