| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Small towns and giant hells : the politics of abandon in rural Ayacucho, 1895-1919 -- To unify those of our race : the Tawantinsuyo Movement in 1920s Ayacucho -- We will no longer be servile : peasants, populism, and APRA in 1930s Ayacucho -- When the ink dries : the politics of literacy in midcentury Ayacucho -- The last will be first : Trotskyism and popular action in the Belaúnde years -- Unfinished revolutions : Ayacucho and the revolutionary government of the armed forces, 1968-1978 -- Abandoned again : 1978 onward |
| Summary |
From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, this book is a long-term historical examination of the Shining Path's political, economic, and social antecedents in Ayacucho, the department where the Shining Path initiated its war. This study uncovers rural Ayacucho's vibrant, but largely unstudied twentieth-century political history and contends that the Shining Path was the last and most extreme of a series of radical political movements that Indigenous peasants pursued |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Politics and government
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Ayacucho (Peru : Department) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Peru -- Ayacucho (Department)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010008178 |
| ISBN |
9780804775786 |
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0804775788 |
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0804770948 |
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9780804770941 |
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