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Title

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

Author

Varón Gabai, Rafael.

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1997.

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Description

xvi, 352 p. : maps, geneal. table; 24 cm.

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.

Subject

• Pizarro, Francisco, approximately 1475-1541 > Family
• Pizarro, Francisco, approximately 1475-1541 > Estate
• Pizarro family
• Pizarro, Hernando, -1578 > Estate
• Pizarro, Gonzalo, -1548 > Estate
• 1500-1820
• Indians of South America > Peru > History > 16th century
• Peru > History > Conquest, 1522-1548
• Peru > History > 1548-1820

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

080612833X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96043880^

OCLC

• 35620362
• SCSB-13399699

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Harvard Library