History's Peru :: the poetics of colonial and postcolonial historiography /

Thurner examines the development of Peruvian historical thought from its misty colonial origins in the 16th century up to the present day. He shows that the concept of 'Peru' is both a strange and enlightening invention of the modern colonial imagination - an invention that lives on today...

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Main Author: Thurner, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2011.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Thurner examines the development of Peruvian historical thought from its misty colonial origins in the 16th century up to the present day. He shows that the concept of 'Peru' is both a strange and enlightening invention of the modern colonial imagination - an invention that lives on today as a postcolonial wager on a democratic political future that can only be imagined in its own historicist terms, not those of European or Western history.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813043173
0813043174
9780813038940
0813038944

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