Contiene: In this present book Pärssinen analyzes and summarizes knowledge concerning the inca expansion and the political structures and principles of a multiethnic state, called Tawantinsuyu by the incas themselves. By using interdisciplinary methods and many new unedited archival sources, including spanish transcriptions and translations of the so-called khipu texts written by Andean people by using colored strings and knots, he weaves together the most up-to date study of the political organization of the inca state.

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