by Carmen Bernand · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070530601
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«Les Incas, peuple du soleil» is the historical essay by Carmen Bernand, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (192 pages, in French).
The work focuses on Peru at the beginning of the 16th century, when Pizarro lands on its coast and completes the conquest in a few months. It recounts the servitude imposed on the indigenous people, the extirpation of their idolatries, and the long resistance of the Incas, the people of the Sun, who never renounced their roots during three centuries of colonization.
This book is number 37 in the Découvertes Gallimard collection, within the Histoire series. The original edition dates from 1988.
This work is aimed at the general public, with particular interest for readers of the history of Andean civilizations and the colonial era.
Carmen Bernand is a French anthropologist, historian and Latin Americanist.
