Peru: a country study

by Hudson, Rex A.

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Title Statements

Full title :Peru : a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress ; edited by Rex A. Hudson.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1993.
Edition:4th ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:1993.

Notes

"Research completed September 1992."

Supercedes the 1981 ed. of Peru : a country study, edited by Richard F. Nyrop.

The Physical Object

Description:lvi, 422 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0844407747, 9780844407746
oclc:ocm28113560
LC Classification:F3408
Dewey Decimal:985

Andean societies before the conquest. Pre-Inca cultures ; The Incas -- The Spanish conquest, 1532-72. Pizarro and the conquistadors ; Consolidation of control -- The colonial period, 1550-1824. Demographic collapse ; The colonial economy ; Colonial administration ; The colonial church ; Indigenous rebellions -- Independence imposed from without, 1808-24 -- Postindependence decline and instability, 1824-45 -- The Guano era, 1845-70. Consolidation of the state ; Failed development -- The war of the Pacific, 1879-83 -- Recovery and growth, 1883-1930. The new militarism, 1886-95 ; The aristocratic republic, 1895-1914 ; Impact of World War I ; The eleven-year rule, 1919-30 -- Mass politics and social change, 1930-68. Impact of the Depression and World War II ; Rural stagnation and social mobilization, 1948-68 -- Failed reform and economic decline, 1968-85. Military reform from above, 1968-80 ; Return to democratic rule, 1980-85 ; Peru at the crossroads -- Environment and population. Natural systems and human life ; People, property, and farming systems -- Human settlement and population through time. Settlement patterns ; Urban, rural, and regional populations ; Demography of growth, m…