Cuzco: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Numerous tourist guides are available for the Cuzco area; perhaps the best are Peter Frost, Exploring Cusco, 5th ed. (1999); and Peter Frost and Ben Box, Cusco & the Sacred Valley Handbook (2001). Pre-Hispanic Cuzco is discussed in Gordon F. McEwan, Pikillacta: The Wari Empire in Cuzco (2005); Brian S. Bauer, Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca (2004), and The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System (1998); and R. Tom Zuidema, Inca Civilization in Cuzco (1990; originally published in French, 1985). Religion in colonial Cuzco is examined in Kathryn Burns, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru (1999); Carolyn Dean, Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru (1999); and Carol Damian, The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco (1995). More recent history of the Cuzco region is found in Charles F. Walker, Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780β1840 (1999); and Marisol de la Cadena, Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919β1991 (2000).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Cusco City, Peru. | Sep 04, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Cusco province (Peru). | Mar 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Tourism-based development in Cusco, Peru: comparing national discourses with local realities (PDF). | Dec 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryWorld - History of the Incas. | Aug 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Organization of World Heritage Cities - Cuzco, Peru. | Aug 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - City of Cusco. | Jan 26, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Cusco, Peru. | Dec 15, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 11, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 12, 2016 | ||
| Replaced photographs. | Sep 08, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNESCO World Heritage Convention - Cuzco, Peru. | Nov 25, 2011 | ||
| Changed "labour force of 20,000" to "labour force that averaged about 20,000." | Jun 17, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Cuzco. | Jul 30, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Lonely Planet - Cuzco, Peru. | Oct 16, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Minnesota State University - Cuzco, Peru. | Oct 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 20, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 04, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 17, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 07, 2001 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |