New World Postcolonial: The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

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By James W. Fuerst ’94

Published Sept. 21, 2018

New World Postcolonial (University of Pittsburgh Press) is the first full-length study of both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s foundational text, Royal Commentaries of the Incas, as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period. Fuerst is one of only a few who have explored the Commentaries as a “mestizo rhetoric,” written to address both native Andean readers and Hispano-Europeans.

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