• Peru Country Study: Introductory series of concise articles, from US Library of Congress. Good place to start for an overview in English. Links to key sections:

•  History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott A Gutenberg Project e-book. You can read the text following the links in this page, or you can also download it in zip format (compressed). The book is based mostly from documents the author collected in Spain. Most of them comes from the Royal Academy of History at Madrid. The richest portion of this collection are papers furnished by Munoz, an eminent scholar employed by nearly fifty years amassing materials for the history of the Spanish discovery and conquest of America.
• Versión Peruana de la Conquista The Peruvian Version of the Conquest.  With a personal, patriotic conviction, Edmundo Guillén Guillén rebuilds the final chapters of the history of the Tawantisuyo (Incan Empire) using authentic historical documents from the XVI and XVII centuries. The site talks about a heroic resistance against the Spanish conquistadors. It emphasizes the failed Reconquest War directed under the leadership of Manco Capac, the Resistance of Vilcabamba, and the holocaust of Tupac Amaru. Bibliography, documents, maps and images.

• Tupac Amaru The Life, Times, and Execution of the Last Inca. Well presented and detailed, with good bibliography of sources. 1998 by James Q. Jacobs.
• A New Chronicle Nueva corónica y buen gobierno Several decades after the fall of the Inca empire, a native Andean from the area of Huamanga in the southern Peruvian Andes wrote to king Philip III of Spain. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's aim was to seek the reform of Spanish colonial governance in order to save the Andean peoples from the destructive forces of colonial exploitation, disease, and miscegenation. Finding his most persuasive medium to be the visual image, he composed 398 full-page drawings which are an integral part of his 1200-page Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. This is a facsimile of the copy that ended up in the Royal Danish library!
• Dead Bones Dancing: The Taki Onqoy, Archaism, and Crisis In Sixteenth Century Peru by Sändra Lee Allen Henson. Hefty (101 pages) thesis looking at aspects of the native reaction to the conquest.
• The Imperial City of Cuzco by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Translated by Dr. Dick Gerdes. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) was born to a Spaniard from the minor nobility and an Inca princess. His literary achievements are based primarily on two historical works, La Florida del Inca (1605) and his seminal work, The Royal Commentaries (Volume I, 1609; Volume II, 1617). The following excerpt from the latter work describes the Incas’ imperial city of Cuzco.  

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1. Peru Country Study: Introductory series of concise articles, from US Library of Congress. Good place to start for an overview in English. Links to key sections:

• Colonial Lima From Colonial Lima, Peru by Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, A Voyage to South America (1748). In  The Historical Text Archive
• Huancavelica and Almaden Dr. Kris Lang presents photos of Huancavelica and Almaden, Peru. Intended to accompany a series of lectures, but of general value. Click on the thumbnails.
•    De las antiguas gentes del Peru  ("About the ancient people of Peru") Online book. This is the complete book at Miguel Cervantes Virtual Library.

• Prado Tellos Expedient: Legal actions Documents: In November of 1991, Monsignor Elías Prado Tello and Alfredo Prado Prado published a document that had been in their family’s possession since the end of the nineteenth century. The document concerns legal land transactions in the rural area of Huamanga (today Ayacucho) in the first decades of the colonial era. The period covered extends from the second half of the sixteenth century to approximately 1640.

• The Inquisition in 17^th-Century Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers by Henry C Lea (1829-1909). From The Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

• Peru Mestizo Visual site concerning art and society in colonial peru from Texas Council for the Humanities Resource Centre. Accompanied by these essays:

• Family Values in Seventeenth-Century Peru by Irene Silverblatt (1998) examines family values and the role of sex in the civilisation  process. This essay hopes to make sense of family values by placing them in the
  broader arena of colonialism’s cultural charge: the task of refashioning the humanity of colonized women and men
•  Traditions in the Postconquest World Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins, Editors. Interesting illustrated essay looks at remnants of native culture in the postcolonial period. From the same series see The Inka and Christian Calendars in Early Colonial Peru by Sabine MacCormack

Missions

• Santa Catalina Convent, Arequipa Established in the 16th century, Santa Catalina convent is perhaps the largest such institution in the world. It was a haven for daughters of the local elite, who lived a pampered if isolated life. (Beautiful) images of the convent). Illustrated with contemporary pictures, modern images and data.  By R H Jackson. Powerpoint pdf file, requiring Adobe Reader.
• see also casahistoria catholic missions in latin america  

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Independence Wars & conflicts with Spain

•  from Armed Conflict Events Data site:

Political overview & narrative

• Peru Country Study: US Library of Congress. Links to key sections:

Revolts

• Peruvian Civil War 1842-45 from Armed Conflict Events Data site

Military conflict

      Early Conflict with Bolivia

• from Armed Conflict Events Data site:

      Ecuador

• Ecuadoran-Peruvian War 1859-60 from Armed Conflict Events Data site

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• War of the Pacific 1879-84 from Armed Conflict Events Data site.
• The Peruvian Army during the first years of the republic, and
• The Peruvian Navy- The XIX Century Maritime Campaigns Detailed information about those campaigns, from the Battle of Junín in 1824 to the War of the Pacific between 1879 to 1883. Well linked and detailed.
• The Pacific War of 1879-1884  also referred to as the Chile-Peruvian War and as the Ten Cents War. From the KMLA school site. A general overview.
• Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1883). (Many) articles from Chile's  Icarito. Simpler Spanish for schools makes for clearer Google translations....
• Grandes Batallas Militares del Peru Peruvian enthusiast site dedicated to the most important battles carried out by the Peruvian Army and Navy during the Pacific War. Includes links to the military campaigns of  Angamos, Tarapaca and Arica and the campaign of Breña. In Spanish.
• The Pacific War (1879-1884) The Pacific War from a Chilean perspective. However, the site is actually dedicated to all the Chilean, Peruvian and Bolivian veterans of this war. The site’s main sections include are history, maps, uniforms, heroes, books, music and links. Includes a Chilean heroes section. A Flash start, but click on Salir to get to the main site.
• Gran Almirante Miguel Grau Seminario A short biography of Peruvian Miguel Grau. He was the admiral of Huáscar, the only surviving Peruvian military ship that defied the whole Chilean fleet during the War of the Pacific. Includes a list of links to sites with similar content
• Ancash Uprising 1885 in the aftermath of the war ..

 And with Great Britain:

• Against the British Squad: The Pacocha Incident - During the 1877 Peruvian revolution headed by Nicolas de Pierola, a British-made ironclad named Huascar was seized from the Peruvian Navy. Soon the ironclad embarked on sabotage actions against the Government forces. It also intercepted British merchant ships along the coast of Peru for inspection. The British were outraged, and sent Rear Admiral de Horsey, the highest-ranking navy officer in the Pacific region. After 21 hours of combat the British officers aborted their mission. The Pacocha Incident was considered as a humiliating action for the Royal Navy and from then on the British Squadron in South America would always be composed of ironclads--the same type of ship as the Huascar.
• The Huáscar ~ the museum ship. Illustrated article with links to the wars with Peru in which it was also involved.  From the Pre-Dreadnought Preservation site

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