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History's Peru : the poetics of colonial and postcolonial historiography / Mark Thurner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thurner, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Peru--History.
- Historiography.
- Peru--Historiography.
- Peru.
- Peru--History--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-3894-4
- 0-8130-4317-4
- OCLC:
- 806032989
- Publisher Number:
- heb40093 hdl
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