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Author Thurner, Mark.

Title History's Peru : the poetics of colonial and postcolonial historiography / Mark Thurner.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Peru -- Historiography.
Peru.
Historiography.
Historiography -- Peru -- History.
History.
Peru -- History -- Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Thurner, Mark. History's Peru. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2011 9780813035383 (DLC) 2010024732 (OCoLC)567162444
ISBN 9780813043173 (electronic book)
0813043174 (electronic book)
9780813038940 (ebook)
0813038944 (ebook)
9780813035383
0813035384