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The Lima reader: history, culture, politics
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
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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.
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9780822363378
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