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Author:

Varón Gabai, Rafael.

Title:

Francisco Pizarro and his brothers : the illusion of power in sixteenth-century Peru / by Rafael Varón Gabai ; translated by Javier Flores Espinoza.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xvi, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pizarro, Francisco,--ca. 1475-1541--Family.
Pizarro, Francisco,--ca. 1475-1541--Estate.
Pizarro family.
Pizarro, Hernando,--d. 1578--Estate.
Pizarro, Gonzalo,--d. 1548--Estate.
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.
Peru--History--1548-1820.
Indians of South America--Peru--History--16th century.
Pizarro (Family)
Kolonialisme.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-340) and index.

Contents:

1. Before the conquest -- 2. Capitulación, grants, and controls -- 3. Francisco Pizarro, Governor of Peru (1532-1541) -- 4. The Pizarro estate under its guardians (1541-1553) -- 5. Hernando Pizarro and Doña Francisca : marriage estate unification -- 6. The personnel -- 7. The Andean world and the conquerors -- 8. The estate of Francisco Pizarro and his children -- 9. The estate of the Pizarro brothers -- 10. Conclusion and epilogue

Summary:

"Based on author's doctoral dissertation, work reconstructs and analyzes the making of the financial empire of the conquerer of Peru and his brothers. Painstaking study examines and elucidates multiple aspects of both the economic and sociopolitical history of the Perus and Spain in the 16th century"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

ISBN:

9780806128337 (alk. paper)
080612833X (alk. paper)

LCCN:

96043880

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)