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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
by Robert Whitaker  Publisher Comments A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known...
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The Last Days of the Incas
by Kim MacQuarrie Publisher Comments In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the...
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Peru (Oxfam Country Profiles)
by John Crabtree Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-86) and index....
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Nightwatch : the Politics of Protest in the Andes (99 Edition)
by Orin Starn Synopsis Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one...
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Peruvian Street Lives : History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (04 Edition)
by Michael Seligmann Synopsis For more than twenty years Linda J. Seligmann has walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco. In this readable ethnography, composed of...
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Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima
by Bianca Premo Publisher Comments Premo examines the social world of children and youths in Lima, Peru, the capital of the Spanish colonial empire in South America. She argues that there was a disjuncture between patriarchal laws and actual child rearing practices that caused the...
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History of the Conquest of Peru
by William H Prescott Publisher Comments Written by one of America's great historians, this gripping chronicle draws upon the firsthand accounts of eminent 16th-century captains and statesmen to relate the overthrow of the Inca empire by the Spanish adventurers under Pizarro's command. Rich in...
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The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J. (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portugue)
by Sabine Hyland Publisher Comments The story of the life and untimely death of a persecuted priest in colonial Peru and the controversy over mysterious, recently discovered documents about him...
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41 Seconds to Freedom: An Insider's Account of the Lima Hostage Crisis, 1996-97
by Luis Giampietri Publisher Comments On December 18, 1997, more than six hundred VIPs were attending the birthday party of the Japanese ambassador to Peru at his elegant residence. Political figures, business leaders, and socialites mingled in a tented pavilion on expansive grounds. Then...
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Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao)
by Gustavo Gorriti Publisher Comments A gripping account of Peru's guerrilla insurgency, known as the Shining Path, which plagued the nation for over fifteen years....
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People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru
by Noble David Cook Synopsis While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru's southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley--and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and deep canyon--...
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Mirages of Transition
by Nils Jacobsen Synopsis This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent...
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Lines in the Sand: Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier
by William Skuban Publisher Comments Following the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), Chile and Peru signed the Treaty of Anc???n (1884) that, in part, dealt with settling a territorial dispute over the provinces of Tacna and Arica along the countries' new common border. The treaty allowed...
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War of Shadows
by Michael F Brown Synopsis War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon--told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Ashaninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who...
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
by Robert Whitaker 
Publisher Comments THE TREK THAT LAY AHEAD OF ISABEL stretched more than 3,000 miles. Even if all went well, it would take her more than six months. The route east out of Riobamba would skirt around towering Mt. Tungurahua, known to spit fire and rocks into the sky. It...
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Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru: The Generation of Rebellion, 1750-1780
by Nicholas A Robins Book News Annotation During the Great Rebellion in Upper Peru of the early 1780s, the Catholic Church and its ministers were consistent targets of attacks by Indian rebels. Robins (Ph.D., Tulane U.) examines conflicts between Catholic clerics and their Indian parishioners...
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Peru: An Ancient Andean Civilization (Wide Angle Books)
by Mario Polia Synopsis From the awe-inspiring ruins of Machu Picchu to the bustling metropolis of Cuzco--the country's capital--from dense subequatorial rainforests to the snowy peaks of the Andes Mountains, this volume transports readers to a land with a tumultuous history...
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Modern Inquisitions : Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (04 Edition)
by Irene Silverblatt Publisher Comments Trying to understand how civilized people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to...
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Peru: The Evolution of a Crisis (Washington Papers)
by James D Rudolph Publisher Comments This volume gives specialists and students alike a comprehensive political history of Peru that includes the first full-length treatment of the 1980s, a decade in which early optimism sparked by the return of democratic rule gave way to widespread...
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History of the conquest of Peru
by William H Prescott Publisher Comments The Modern Library reintroduces William Prescott's epic histories of the European conquests of Mexico and Peru. William Hinkling Prescott's monumental histories were available for many years in a single volume in the Modern Library. Now the works are...
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