Description: Further DetailsTitle: History's PeruCondition: NewSubtitle: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial HistoriographyEAN: 9780813041995ISBN: 9780813041995Publisher: University Press of FloridaFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/31/2012Description: More than the story of a South American country, History's Peru examines how the entity called ""Peru"" gradually came into being, and how the narratives that defined it evolved over time. Mark Thurner here offers a brilliant account of Peruvian historiography, one that makes a pioneering contribution not only to Latin American studies but also to the history of historical thought at large. He traces the contributions of key historians of Peru, from the colonial period through the present, and teases out the theoretical underpinnings of their approaches. He demonstrates how Peruvian historical thought critiques both European history and Anglophone postcolonial theory. And his deeply informed readings of Peru's most influential historians--from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Jorge Basadre--are among the most subtle and powerful available in English. In this tour de force, Thurner examines the development of Peruvian historical thought from its misty colonial origins in the sixteenth century up to the present day. He demonstrates 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. A fascinating counter example to those who mistakenly believe history to be an exact and objective science, History's Peru is an intellectual adventure of wide scope and great originality. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Mark ThurnerGenre: HistoryItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 17mmItem Weight: 456gRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: History's Peru
Title: History's Peru
Subtitle: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography
EAN: 9780813041995
ISBN: 9780813041995
Release Date: 07/31/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: History's Peru : the Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Historiography, Latin America / General, Latin America / South America
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: History
Author: Mark Thurner
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
