The Peru reader : history, culture, politics

Format: Print Book 2005
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CLP - Main Library Mezzanine - Non-fiction F3431.P478 2005
Location  CLP - Main Library
 
Collection  Mezzanine - Non-fiction
 
Call Number  F3431.P478 2005
 
 
Summary
Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The early-twentieth-century American adventurer Hiram Bingham told of the raging rivers and the wild jungles he traversed on his way to rediscovering the "Lost City of the Incas," Machu Picchu. Seventy years later, news crews from ABC and CBS traveled to Peru to report on merciless terrorists, starving peasants, and Colombian drug runners in the "white gold" rush of the coca trade. As often as not, Peru has been portrayed in broad extremes: as the land of the richest treasures, the bloodiest conquest, the most poignant ballads, and the most violent revolutionaries. This revised and updated second edition of the bestselling Peru Reader offers a deeper understanding of the complex country that lies behind these claims.

Unparalleled in scope, the volume covers Peru's history from its extraordinary pre-Columbian civilizations to its citizens' twenty-first-century struggles to achieve dignity and justice in a multicultural nation where Andean, African, Amazonian, Asian, and European traditions meet. The collection presents a vast array of essays, folklore, historical documents, poetry, songs, short stories, autobiographical accounts, and photographs. Works by contemporary Peruvian intellectuals and politicians appear alongside accounts of those whose voices are less often heard--peasants, street vendors, maids, Amazonian Indians, and African-Peruvians. Including some of the most insightful pieces of Western journalism and scholarship about Peru, the selections provide the traveler and specialist alike with a thorough introduction to the country's astonishing past and challenging present.

Additional Information
Series Latin America readers.
Subjects Peru -- History.
Peru -- Social conditions.
Peru -- Economic conditions.
Publisher Durham :Duke University Press,2005
Edition Second edition, revised and updated.
Contributors Starn, Orin, editor.
Degregori, Carlos Iván, editor.
Kirk, Robin, editor.
Language English
Description ix, 582 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780822336495
0822336499
9780822336556
0822336553
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