Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Indiviual, and the Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935

by David Nugent

Book Overview

Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states--how they form, what sustains them, why they fail--this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of the modern nation-state "from below." By approaching nation-state formation from the perspective of the subaltern, the book offers a critique of scholarship that sees coercion and the imposition of social and cultural forms as the core of nation-state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729581
• ISBN13: 9780804729581
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"