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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2011.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The founding abyss
- The arts of history and the arts of rule
- The as if of the book of kings
- The proper name of el país de los Incas
- The postcolonial death of the book of kings
- Popular sovereignty and the history of the soul
- The end of the Peruvian history of Peru.