 | Guaman Poma : Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru: Second Edition (ILAS Special Publication)
By: University Of Texas Press Price: $ 24.95 $ 19.95
In the midst of native peoples discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva corónica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Pomas verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist... |
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 | The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion, Em Traducao)
By: The University Of North Carolina Press Price: $ 40.35 $ 29.95 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 4.5
First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaundes reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. Covering the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both the government and the rebels, the book shows how the tightly organized... |
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 | Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture
By: University Of Texas Press Price: $ 60.00 $ 24.99
Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism. This book presents a "biography" of Pampa Grande that offers a reconstruction not only of the site itself but also of the sociocultural and economic environment in which it was built... |
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 | History of the Inca Empire: An Account of the Indians Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions (Texas Pan American Series)
By: University Of Texas Press Price: $ 21.95 $ 8.25
"While Cobos Historia is not a pristine account, it is hard to imagine what our knowledge of Andean societies would be without it. Four hundred years after Cobo landed in Lima, Roland Hamilton should be congratulated on his translations of the Historia del Nuevo Mundo, which remains a monument to the breadth of vision and intellectual energy of its author." —American Antiquity The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set... |
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 | The Fujimori Legacy: The Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism in Peru
By: Pennsylvania State University Press Price: $ 27.00 $ 17.05
President Alberto Fujimoris sudden resignation in November 2000 brought an end to a highly controversial period in Peruvian history. His meteoric rise to power in 1990 fueled by widespread popular support, followed by his decision to dissolve Congress and rule by decree in 1992, has made his regime a focus of special attention by scholars trying to understand this complex and contradictory presidency. This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Fujimoris regime in the context of Latin Americas struggle to consolidate democracy after... |
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 | Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 23.95 $ 13.99 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America’s first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elite, and reproducing an Andean colonial order in which economic and spiritual interests were inextricably fused. Based on unprecedented archival research, Colonial Habits demonstrates how nuns became leading guarantors of their... |
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 | The Moche (Peoples of America)
By: Wiley-blackwell Price: $ 31.95 $ 29.70 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 2.5
This vivid evocation of an ancient civilization is both enlivened and deepened by the authors sympathetic understanding of customs, rituals and myths which to modern eyes may seem both strange and terrible. It will be widely welcomed by scholars and students of South American archaeology and history, by all those curious to know more about a civilization that for thirteen centuries was largely forgotten. |
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 | The Monkeys Paw: New Chronicles from Peru
By: University Of Massachusetts Press Price: $ 22.95 $ 11.94 Reviews: 9 Average Rating: 3.0
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 | The Inca World: The Development of Pre-Columbian Peru, A.D. 1000-1534
By: University Of Oklahoma Press Price: $ 34.95 $ 23.00 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
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 | Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995 (Latin America Otherwise)
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 78.73 $ 24.95 Reviews: 4 Average Rating: 5.0
Shining and Other Paths offers the first systematic account of the social experiences at the heart of the war waged between Shining Path and the Peruvian military during the 1980s and early 1990s. Confronting and untangling the many myths and enigmas that surround the war and the wider history of twentieth-century Peru, this book presents clear and often poignant analyses of the brutal reshaping of life and politics during a war that cost tens of thousands of lives.The contributors—a team of Peruvian and U.S. historians, social... |
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