Mirages of transition : the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 / Nils Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobsen, Nils, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Azángaro (Peru : Province)--Economic conditions.

Azángaro (Peru : Province).

Azángaro (Peru : Province)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages) : 1 frontispiece, 2 maps, 29 tables, 12 figures.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a successful transition to capitalism between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that although the political, economic, and administrative structures of colonialism were gradually dismantled by the region's advancing market economy, colonial modes of constructing power and social identity have lingered on even to this day. The result of painstaking research in remote rural archives, some of them now made inaccessible by the Shining Path, Mirages of Transition will become the definitive work on the Peruvian highlands.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Maps, Tables, and Figures

Preface

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Why, Where, and How Many?

2. From the "Andean Space" to the Export Funnel

3. Colonialism Adrift

4. The Oligarchization of Liberal Visions

5. The Symbiosis of Exports and Regional Trade

6. The Avalanche of Hacienda Expansion

7. Communities, the State, and Peasant Solidarity

8. Gamonales, Colonos, and Capitalists

9. Conclusion: Gamonales Aren't Forever

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585129532

0585129533

9780520913912

0520913914

OCLC:

1163878140