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Hispanic American Historical Review (1931) 11 (4): 519–521.
Published: 01 November 1931
...James Alexander Robertson Copyright 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 Machu Picchu: A Citadel of the Incas. Report of the Explorations and Excavations made in 1911, 1912 and 1915 under the Auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society . By Bingham Hiram...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 767–769.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Mónica Salas Landa Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu . By Amy Cox Hall . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 267 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (2): 362.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Izumi Shimada Since its exciting discovery in 1911 by Bingham, Machu Picchu and its splendor have been the subject of a good deal of writing, due largely to the effective unity between its natural setting of cloud-covered granite peaks rising above the Río Urubamba and magnificent artificial...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1949) 29 (2): 276.
Published: 01 May 1949
...John Howland Rowe Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Lost City of the Incas: The Story of Machu Picchu and Its Builders . By Bingham Hiram . ( New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce , 1948 . Pp. xx , 263 . $5.00 .) ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 588–590.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Christopher Heaney Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru . By Mark Rice . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2018 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 233 pp. Paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 August 2005
... functions of this site. Finally, Jorge A. Flores Ochoa discusses the religious, symbolic, and political significance of Machu Picchu to contemporary Quechua communities, local residents, and the Peruvian government. He explores the use of archaeological sites as sacred spaces by modern Quechua...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 143–171.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The transformation of the Inca Trail from overgrown path to global hiking destination began in the early twentieth century. Foreign and Peruvian scientific expeditions socially constructed the trail as natural and cultural heritage. State and corporate actors sought...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 228.
Published: 01 February 1971
...Wesley R. Hurt In addition to detailed descriptions and historical accounts of Cuzco and nearby sites, both prehistoric and contemporary, there is a major section on the well known archaeological site of Machu Picchu. However, only those sites which contain spectacular architectural features...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 339–340.
Published: 01 May 1994
... travelers and scholars. Literally millions of visitors have made the journey to sites like Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, and Sacsahuaman. The new paperback is a lushly illustrated volume with more than 150 dramatic black-and-white photographs by Edward Ranney, supplemented by site plans and maps...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 549.
Published: 01 August 1968
.... By employing written accounts of certain key expeditions the author takes the reader on a whirlwind tour up the Amazon, around the Horn, and into the misty Andes. The saga begins with Columbus and concludes in 1911 with Bingham’s discovery of Machu Picchu. Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 679–680.
Published: 01 November 1968
..., was found with jars and beakers and with adult and child companions. Other illustrations cover additional sites in both north and south, including the celebrated constructions at Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu. A number of photographs show the Inca roads, twenty feet or more wide, winding around slopes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 518–519.
Published: 01 August 1969
... the Peruvian coast, views of Machu Picchu and other archaeological sites, gold work from Colombia, and some Maya stela or stone carving. What is interesting about the specimens illustrated by Anton and Dockstader is that many of them have not appeared in print before, because they belong to private collectors...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): v–vi.
Published: 01 February 2012
... in Machu Picchu is in progress. Another of her research projects analyzes historic and contemporary vicuña conservation and commodification. matthew vitz received his PhD in 2010 from New York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies of the University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 1985
... Valley of the Incas,” roughly midway between Cuzco and Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo included by the sixteenth century a large mix of Inca nobles, relatives, allies, and yanaconas , in addition to the valley’s ancestral inhabitants. Its ecology and commercial possibilities encouraged colonization...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 276–277.
Published: 01 May 1963
... illustrations of the Inca site of Machu Picchu. This site presents us with significant data on Inca architecture, because it has not been built over like Cuzco, for instance, but rather remained unknown since Inca times until Hiram Bingham’s expedition discovered it. Disselhoff’s text on Greater Peru...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 340–342.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the rocks, long the silent witnesses to the past, speak in their own language and not be eclipsed by the cultural and visual language of the West. Any traveler to Cuzco has experienced the basic tour on the first day (when they should be resting and adjusting before boarding the train to Machu Picchu...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 560–562.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., Vilcabamba receded into the colonial periphery until Hiram Bingham's 1911 expedition brought lost Inca sites new global attention. For most of the past century, Vilcabamba remained inaccessible to all but the most determined explorers, even as the development of the nearby site of Machu Picchu offered ever...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 339–340.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... xv, 268 pp. Paper , $45.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 For all the attention that has been paid to the magnificent Inca site of Machu Picchu, we know surprisingly little about the intimate landscapes where life took place within Inca royal estates. Insightful, evocative...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 February 2005
...). The brutality of the Chuquicamata mines in northern Chile led the future guerrilla to conclude that communism “was no more than a natural longing for something better” (p. 78). Visiting the Machu Picchu ruins and, more importantly, traveling in the company of indigenous peasants led Che to recognize “a race...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 February 2012
... the aura initially surrounding the German expeditions. Carey also considers the German scientists’ role in promoting mountain tourism, a topic examined in depth in Keely Maxwell’s article on the Inca Trail. A hiking trail that runs from the Cusichaca Valley, near Cusco, to Machu Picchu, the Inca Trail...
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