Modern Peru : a new history
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Modern Peru : a new history
Duke University Press, [2025] , , c2025
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Summary: "The essays gathered in Modern Peru provide an up-to-date account of the history of Peru, beginning with the late colonial period and stretching up to the present moment. The essays develop a chronological account of the economic and political development of the nation since its independence from Spain. While each author contends with a specific period of this history, and the problems and events unfolding therein, the collection coheres around a unifying question: how has Peru dealt with what the editors, Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara, call "the curse of freedom" and the many challenges that its independent or postcolonial history has produced? The political narrative that unfolds reveals the history of Peru to be of a Sisyphean nature in which successive national projects are rolled out and struggle to provide sovereign stability for the country. Yet the Sisyphus metaphor conveys not only the recurring national struggle to achieve political freedom but opens space for optimism and action"
Includes index
