Bibliography
for the Inca Empire.

General works

Tahuantinsuyu

• D'Altroy, Terence N. The Incas. 2nd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. The standard one-volume contemporary reference.
• McEwan, Gordon F. The Incas: New Perspectives. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
• Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, María. History of the Inca Realm. Trans. Harry B. Iceland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Knopf, 2005. The accessible single-volume synthesis of pre-Columbian American history.

Chapter I — Andean pre-history

Before the Inca

• Moseley, Michael E. The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru. 2nd ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
• Bruhns, Karen Olsen. Ancient South America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Shady Solís, Ruth. Caral: La civilización más antigua de América. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2003.
• Alva, Walter, and Christopher B. Donnan. Royal Tombs of Sipán. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum, 1993.

Chapters II–III — Imperial expansion

Pachacuti, Topa Inca, Huayna Cápac

• Covey, R. Alan. How the Incas Built Their Heartland: State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies in the Sacred Valley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
• Bauer, Brian S. Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
• Bauer, Brian S., and David S. P. Dearborn. Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Chapter IV — Administration

The mita, the qollqas, the khipus, the Qhapaq Ñan

• Hyslop, John. The Inka Road System. New York: Academic Press, 1984.
• D'Altroy, Terence N., and Christine A. Hastorf, eds. Empire and Domestic Economy. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001.
• Urton, Gary. Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.
• Hyland, Sabine. Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
• Hyland, Sabine. "Reading the Khipu: Labels, Structure, and Format." Latin American Antiquity 23.3 (2012): 339–358. Sample of the recent khipu decipherment work.

Chapter V — Religion and society

Inti, huacas, apus, the ceque system

• Zuidema, R. Tom. The Ceque System of Cuzco: The Social Organization of the Capital of the Inca. Leiden: Brill, 1964.
• Reinhard, Johan, and María Constanza Ceruti. Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2010.
• Salomon, Frank. The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
• MacCormack, Sabine. Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Chapters VI–VIII — Civil war, conquest, Vilcabamba

1527–1572

• Hemming, John. The Conquest of the Incas. London: Macmillan, 1970. The standard English-language conquest history; revised in subsequent editions.
• MacQuarrie, Kim. The Last Days of the Incas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
• Pizarro, Pedro. Relación del descubrimiento y conquista de los reinos del Perú (1571). Trans. Philip Ainsworth Means. New York: The Cortes Society, 1921.
• Cieza de León, Pedro. The Discovery and Conquest of Peru. Trans. Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
• Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro. The History of the Incas. Trans. Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
• Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe. Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (c. 1615). Online edition: www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm (Royal Danish Library).

Chapters IX–X — Colonial and republican aftermath

1572 to today

• Garrett, David T. Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cuzco, 1750–1825. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Walker, Charles F. The Túpac Amaru Rebellion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
• Mariátegui, José Carlos. Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928). Trans. Marjory Urquidi. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.
• Arguedas, José María. Deep Rivers (Los ríos profundos, 1958). Trans. Frances Horning Barraclough. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978.
• Méndez, Cecilia. The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.