From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru

by Mark Thurner

Book Overview

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 interpretations of Peruvian and modern Latin American history and casts a critical eye toward Creole and Eurocentric ideas about citizenship and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318121
• ISBN13: 9780822318125
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"