Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1978 - Volume 33 - Numéro 5 - Pages 927-935Recent research on changes in the recruitment of the armed forces in the growing Inca State, has reopened the larger issue of the rapid expansion of this polity in the XVth century and its instantaneous collapse in the 1530's. The study of the rebellions frequently mentioned in the dynastic oral tradition is another way of approaching the same topic. 9 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.