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The Lima reader : history, culture, politics /

Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru's capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the "City of Kings."

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aguirre, Carlos, 1958- (Editor ), Walker, Charles F., 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Latin America readers.
World readers.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pre-Hispanic, conquest, and early Colonial Lima
  • Pre-Hispanic Lima / César Pacheco Vélez
  • The foundation of Lima / Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca
  • The form and greatness of Lima / Bernabé Cobo
  • Lima's convents / José de la Riva-Aguero
  • The spiritual diary of an Afro-Peruvian mystic / Ursula de Jesús
  • Auto-da-fé and processión / Josephe and Francisco Mugaburu
  • Margarita's wedding dress / Ricardo Palma
  • Bourbon Lima
  • Of the inhabitants of Lima / Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa
  • The 1746 earthquake / Anonymous
  • A failed Indian uprising / Anonymous
  • Lima and Cuzco / Concolorcorvo
  • Slave religion and culture / Hesperióphylo
  • Faces of all colors / Hipólito Ruiz
  • Impressions of Lima / Alexander von Humboldt
  • From independence to the War of the Pacific (1821-1884)
  • Lima in 1821 / Basil Hall
  • The passion for bullfighting / William S.W. Ruschenberger
  • Pancho Fierro / Natalia Majluf
  • A slave plantation / Flora Tristán
  • The saddest city / Herman Melville
  • Lima's carnival and its glories / Manuel Atanasio Fuentes
  • The Amancaes parade / Ismael Portal
  • Chinese are not welcome / Mariano Castro Zaldívar
  • The national library and the Chilean occupation / E.W. Middendorf
  • Modernizing Lima (1895-1940)
  • The transformation of Lima after 1895 / José Gálvez
  • A middle-class house in 1900 / Luis Alberto Sánchez
  • The growing popular taste for soccer / El Comercio
  • The Lord of the Miracles procession / José Carlos Mariátegui
  • Dance in the cemetery / El Tiempo
  • On the streetcar / Martín Adán
  • Leguía's Lima / Guillermo Rodríguez Mariátegui
  • The paperboy / Felipe Pinglo Alva
  • Daily life of a domestic servant / Laura Miller
  • Interlude: nostalgia and its discontents
  • The true Lima / Chabuca Granda
  • The mislaid nostalgia / Sebastián Salazar Bondy
  • Of the ugliest cities in the world? / Alberto Flores Galindo
  • Understanding Huachafería / Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The many Limas (1940')
  • Malambo, a black neighborhood / Hugo Marquina Rí́os
  • The original mansion / Alfredo Bryce Echenique
  • Diego Ferre and Miraflores / Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The banquet / Julio Ramón Ribeyro
  • A Serrano family in Lima / Richard W. Patch
  • The great march of Villa el Salvador / José María Salcedo
  • Being young and radical (late 1960s and 1970s) / Maruja Martínez
  • The day Lima erupted / Enrique Zileri Gibson
  • A city of outsiders / José Matos Mar
  • The Israelites of the new universal covenant / Peter Masson
  • María Elena Moyano / Robin Kirk
  • The Tarata Street bombing: July 16, 1992 / Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • Shining path: a prisoner's testimony / Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • Twenty-first-century feudalism / Wilfredo Ardito Vega
  • Chicha and Huayno: Andean music and culture in Lima / Gisela Cánepa
  • That sickly applause / 'El cholo Juan'
  • Life among the pirates / Daniel Alarcón
  • How food became religion in Peru's capital city / Marco Avilés
  • Green vultures / Charles F. Walker.