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The Reformation · c. 1615

The First New Chronicle and Good Government

Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala · c. 1535–c. 1616

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What it is

Twelve hundred pages and four hundred drawings by an Andean nobleman, addressed to the king of Spain, documenting Inca history and the abuses of colonial rule.

Why it lasted

The longest sustained indigenous critique of colonialism from the period, lost in a Danish library until 1908.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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