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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780813043173 |