Title The Road to the Land of the Mother of God A History of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (426 p.) Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: The raid motociclístico -- Introduction: Why a History of a Road? -- 1. Dreams of Gran Paititi and Nightmares for the Newcomers: Madre de Dios before 1890 -- 2. The Rubber Boom and the Many Routes to the Mother of God: Madre de Dios from the 1890s to the 1910s -- 3. The Old Route and the Future Highway: Madre de Dios from the 1920s to the 1940s -- 4. Models and Experiences of Development: Madre de Dios from the 1950s to the 1970s 5. The Foundations of the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios in Context in the 1980s and 1990s -- 6. The Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America and the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios as Ground Zero in the 2000s -- 7. What Actually Happened: Impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the Late 2000s and Early 2010s -- 8. The Interoceanic Highway and the Lava Jato Corruption Scandal: The Late 2010s and Beyond -- Conclusion: The Interoceanic Highway and Integrative Infrastructure History Appendix: The Selection and Management of Sources for an Integrative History of the Interoceanic Highway -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Through more than five hundred years of the history of Peru's Interoceanic Highway, this book shows how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of roads change between historical periods, and thus why roads bring many more impacts and costs than their advocates and critics generally anticipate Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Roads -- Social aspects -- Peru Roads -- Peru -- History TRAVEL / South America / Peru. HISTORY / Latin America / South America. Social conditions Roads -- Social aspects Roads SUBJECT Corredor Vial Interoceánico Sur -- History Madre de Dios (Peru : Department) -- Social conditions Subject Peru -- Madre de Dios (Department) Peru Corredor Vial Interoceánico Sur Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Castillo Hurtado, Jorge Luis ISBN 9781496236319 1496236319 9781496236302 1496236300

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