Jaymie Heilman: 2 books
Before the Shining Path
Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, Before the Shining Path is the first long-term historical examination of the Shining Path's political,...
Now Peru Is Mine
The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Born in 1921, Manuel Llamojha Mitma became one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists. Now Peru Is Mine combines extensive oral history interviews with archival research to chronicle his struggles for indigenous land rights and political inclusion as well as his fight...