Lima Reader (eBook, PDF)

History, Culture, Politics
Redaktion: Carlos Aguirre, Aguirre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru's capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the "e;City of Kings."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373186
• Artikelnr.: 54784466

Autorenporträt

Carlos Aguirre is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and the author of The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850–1935, also published by Duke University Press.    Charles F. Walker is Professor of History, Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, and MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in International Human Rights at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath and Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840, both also published by Duke University Press.   

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction  1
I. Pre-Hispanic, Conquest, and Early Colonial Lima  7
II. Bourbon Lima  37
III. From Independence to the War of the Pacific (1821–1883)  67
IV. Modernizing Lima (1895–1940)  101
V. Interlude: Nostalgia and Its Discontents  143
VI. The Many Limas (1940–)  161
Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing  257
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources  263
Index  269