The Lima Reader -

The Lima Reader

History, Culture, Politics
Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6337-8 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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 “City of Kings.”
Covering more than five hundred years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader captures the multiple viewpoints of the diverse peoples of Peru’s capital city. The volume traces Lima’s transformation from a pre-Columbian religious center, to the colonial “City of Kings,” to today's vibrant and deeply divided metropolis of almost ten million people. A rich array of primary sources—including traveler accounts, essays, photographs, maps, poems, short stories, lyrics, and memoir excerpts, many appearing in English for the first time—address how Lima’s multiethnic population, class inequalities, and debates of who is a “true” limeño/a have evolved throughout the city’s history. The book also includes selections that explore Lima’s identity through its food, sports culture, festivals, and sense of humor. Intended for travelers, students, and scholars alike, The Lima Reader is an invaluable introduction to the complex social tensions and cultural history of Lima and its people.

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.  

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Latin America Readers
Zusatzinfo 67 illustrations, incl. 14 in
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 590 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Reiseführer Südamerika Peru
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-8223-6337-2 / 0822363372
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-6337-8 / 9780822363378
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