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|9780822965404|The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega|The first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incas as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period. It is also among a handful of studies to explore the Commentaries as a “mestizo rhetoric,” written to subtly address both native Andean readers and Hispano-Europeans.| James W. Fuerst| Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas| Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American