Kim MacQuarrie
Goodreads Author
Born
Los Angeles, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Member Since
May 2010
To ask
Kim MacQuarrie
questions,
please sign up.
Popular Answered Questions
More books by Kim MacQuarrie…
“In a sense, New World conquest was about men seeking a way around one of life's basic rules - that human beings have to work for a living, just like the rest of the animal world. In Peru, as elsewhere in the Americas, Spaniards were not looking for fertile land that they could farm, they were looking for the cessation of their own need to perform manual labor. To do so, they needed to find large enough groups of people they could force to carry out all the laborious tasks necessary to provide them with the essentials of life: food, shelter, clothing, and, ideally, liquid wealth. Conquest, then, had little to do with adventure, but rather had everything to do with groups of men willing to do just about anything in order to avoid working for a living. Stripped down to its barest bones, the conquest of Peru was all about finding a comfortable retirement.”
― The Last Days of the Incas
― The Last Days of the Incas
“You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” THUCYDIDES, THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, 5TH CENTURY B.C.”
― The Last Days of the Incas
― The Last Days of the Incas
“The Incas, although an authoritarian monarchy, had succeeded nevertheless during their short reign not only in creating a massive empire, but perhaps more importantly in guaranteeing all of the empire's millions of inhabitants the basic necessities of life: adequate food, water, and shelter. It was an achievement that no subsequent government -- Spanish or Peruvian -- has attained since”
― The Last Days of the Incas
― The Last Days of the Incas
Topics Mentioning This Author
topics | posts | views | last activity | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kindle Book Club ...: October 2011 SPOILER ALERT: Abducted, Finished Reading | 44 | 22 | Apr 18, 2012 07:21PM | |
The History Book ...: TOC AND SYLLABUS-LAST DAYS OF INCAS | 2 | 101 | Mar 05, 2014 07:49AM | |
The History Book ...: INTRODUCTION - LAST DAYS OF INCAS (SPOILER THREAD) | 7 | 91 | Apr 13, 2014 05:26AM | |
The History Book ...: GLOSSARY - LAST DAYS OF INCAS (SPOILER THREAD) | 23 | 124 | May 03, 2014 12:13PM | |
The History Book ...: BENTLEY'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2014 | 7 | 36 | Jun 21, 2014 09:46AM | |
The History Book ...: BIBLIOGRAPHY - MILITARY SERIES - HANNS AND RUDOLF - (SPOILER THREAD) | 31 | 56 | Jul 17, 2014 10:54AM | |
Catching up on Cl...: A-Z Title Challenge - 2014 | 130 | 208 | Dec 25, 2014 09:02AM | |
The History Book ...: FRANCIE'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2014 | 78 | 91 | Dec 31, 2014 09:46PM | |
The History Book ...: KATHY'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2014 | 152 | 123 | Jan 02, 2015 09:51PM | |
The History Book ...: KRESSEL'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2014 | 124 | 195 | Jan 05, 2015 11:14AM |
“What crooked, blind, narrow, impassable, far-straying paths mankind has chosen, striving to attain eternal truth, while a whole straight road lay open before it, like the road leading to a magnificent dwelling meant for a king's mansion! Broader and more splendid than all other roads it is, lit by the sun and illumined all night by lamps, yet people have flowed past it in the blind darkness. So many times already, though guided by a sense come down from heaven, they have managed to waver and go astray, have managed in broad daylight to get again into an impassable wilderness, have managed again to blow a blinding fog into each other's eyes, and, dragging themselves after marsh-lights, have managed finally to reach the abyss, only to ask one another in horror: where is the way out, where is the path?”
― Dead Souls
― Dead Souls
The Armchair Traveler's Club
— 174 members
— last activity Jun 18, 2023 01:51AM
"He had learned the art of storytelling in the Orient, where storytellers are highly regarded. Indeed, they are magicians and play with the souls of t ...more
"He had learned the art of storytelling in the Orient, where storytellers are highly regarded. Indeed, they are magicians and play with the souls of t ...more
Around the World in 80 Books
— 28730 members
— last activity 1 hour, 49 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more