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Heaney, Christopher.
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Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956.
Latin Americanists -- United States -- Biography.
Incas -- Antiquities.
Cultural property -- Peru.
Incas -- History.
Machu Picchu Site (Peru)
Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548.
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Heaney, Christopher.
Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956.
Latin Americanists -- United States -- Biography.
Incas -- Antiquities.
Cultural property -- Peru.
Incas -- History.
Machu Picchu Site (Peru)
Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548.
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Cradle of gold : the story of Hiram Bingham, a real-life Indiana Jones, and the search for Machu Picchu / Christopher Heaney.
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Heaney, Christopher.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Call #:
985
.37
B613h
Subjects
Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956.
Latin Americanists -- United States -- Biography.
Incas -- Antiquities.
Cultural property -- Peru.
Incas -- History.
Machu Picchu Site (Peru)
Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548.
ISBN:
9780230112049 (pbk.)
9780230611696 (hardback)
0230611699 (hardback)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 285 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-275) and index.
Summary:
In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the Incas' greatest achievement. Bingham believed that Machu Picchu was the Incas' final refuge, where they fled the Spanish Conquistadors. He made Machu Picchu famous, and his dispatches from the jungle cast him as the swashbuckling hero romanticized today as a true Indiana Jones-like character. But his excavation of the site raised old specters of conquest and plunder, and met with an indigenous nationalism that changed the course of Peruvian history. Though Bingham successfully realized his dream of bringing Machu Picchu's treasure of skulls, bones and artifacts back to the United States, conflict between Yale and Peru persists through the present day over a simple question: Who owns Inca history?
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