Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru
by
Mark Thurner
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1997
From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru’s troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner’s reading of the Andean peasantry’s engagement and disengagement with the postcolonial state challenges long-standing...