Peru

(see also Peru: Sendero Luminoso, Peru: Amazon Region, Peru since 1968 & Latin America: Drug War)

Basics

CIA World Factbook. Includes map.

New Internationalist Profile.

UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators.

World Guide.

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

Ibermundo Peru.

WWW Virtual Library.

In the Library: Articles

Allen, Catherine J. "Patterned time: the mythic history of a Peruvian community," Journal of Latin American Lore 10,2 (1984):151-74.

Angotti, Thomas. "The contributions of José Carlos Mariátegui to revolutionary theory," Latin American Perspectives 13,2 (spr 1986):33-57.

Beals, Carleton. "Aprismo. The rise of Haya de la Torre," Foreign Affairs (1/35):236-46.

Bollinger, William. "The bourgeois revolution in Peru: a conception of Peruvian history," Latin American Perspectives 4,3 (1977):18-56.

Brass, Tom. "Class formation & class struggle in La Convención, Peru (1940-1975)," Journal of Peasant Studies 7,4 (7/80):427-57.

__________. "Trotskyism, Hugo Blanco & the ideology of a Peruvian peasant movement," Journal of Peasant Studies 16 (1/89):173-97.

Brundenius, Claes. "The anatomy of imperialism: multinational mining corporations in Peru," Journal of Peace Research 3 (1972):189-208.

Campbell, Leon. "The historiography of the Peruvian guerrilla movement, 1960-65," Latin American Research Review (2/73).

Cotler, Julio & Felipe Portocarrero. "Peru: peasant organizations," in Landsberger (ed.) Latin American Peasant Movements (Ithaca, 1969), pp. 297-322.

Davies, Thomas M. Jr. "Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre and the APRA: the politics of ideology," Review of Latin American Studies 3,1 (1990):1-15.

de la Puente Uceda, Luis. "The Peruvian revolution," Monthly Review 17,6 (1965).

Flores Galindo, Alberto. "Apuntes sobre las ocupaciones de tierras y el sindicalismo agrario, 1945-1964," Allpanchis (Cusco) 11/12 (1978):175-85.

Hall, Kevin G. “Peruvian environmental group tries to stem illegal dolphin trade,” San Jose Mercury (6/8/03): 19A.

Hobsbawm, Eric J. "A case of neo-feudalism: La Convención, Peru," Journal of Latin American Studies 1 (1969):31-50.

Klaiber, Jeffrey. "The Catholic lay movement in Peru: 1867-1959," The Americas 50,2 (10/83).

Klarén, Peter F. "The origins of modern Peru, 1880-1930," in Cambridge History of Latin America 5 (London, 1986).

Laite, Julian. "Miners & national politics in Peru, 1900-1974," Journal of Latin American Studies 12,2 (1980):317-40.

Maier, Georg. "Peru: portrait of a fragmented society," in W.A. Veenhoven & W.C. Ewing (eds.) Case Studies in Human Rights & Fundamental Freedoms (The Hague, 1976).

Mariátegui, José Carlos. "The anti-imperialist perspective [192?]," New Left Review 70 (11-12/71):65-74.

Masterson, Daniel. "Caudillismo & institutional change: Manual Odría & the Peruvian Armed Forces, 1948-1956," The Americas (1983).

Matos Mar, José. "The 'barriadas' of Lima: an example of integration into urban life," in P.M. Hauser (ed.) Urbanization in Latin America (NY, 1961), pp. 170-90.

North, Liisa. "The Peruvian Aprista Party & Haya de la Torre: myths & realities," Journal of Inter-American Studies & World Affairs 17,2 (5/75):245-53.

Patch, Richard W. "Life in a callejón: a study of urban disorganization" (American Universities Field Service; West Coast South America Reports 8,6; NY, 1961).

Peloso, Vincent. "Juan Esquivel: cotton plantation tenant," in Beezley & Ewell (eds.) Human Tradition in Latin America: The 20th C. (Wilmington, 1987), pp. 59-73

Pike, Frederick B. "Religion, collectivism & intrahistory: the Peruvian ideal of dependance," Journal of Latin American Studies 10,2 (1978):239-62.

Portocarrero, Felipe. "El pensamiento político de Haya de la Torre," Análisis (Lima) 1 (1-3/77):37-48.

Reedy, Danel R. "Aspects of the feminist movement in Peruvian letters & politics," Annals of the Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) 6 (1975):53-64.

Rozman, Stephen L. "Peru: oil & the army," Nation (10/28/68).

Salas, Teresa C. & Richard Henry. "Nicomedes Santa Cruz y la poesía de su conciencia de negritud," Cuadernos Americanos 202 (9-10/75):182-99.

Sallnow, Michael J. "Manorial labour & religious ideology in the Central Andes: a working hypothesis," Bulletin of Latin American Reseaarch 2,2 (5/83):39-56.

Smith, Margo L. "Domestic service as a channel of upward mobility for the lower-class woman: the Lima case," in A. Pescatello (ed.) Female & Male in Latin America (Pittsburgh, 1973), pp. 191-208.

Stein, Steve. "Soccer & social change in 20th-c. Peru," Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 3 (1984) & 5 (1986).

Stein, William W. "Populism in Peru: APRA, the formative years," in M. Conniff (ed.) Latin American Populism (Albuquerque, 1982), pp. 113-34.

__________. "Ideology in rural struggle: contradictions of popular movements in highland Peru," in L. Kliever (ed.) The Terrible Meek (NY, 1987), pp. 93-137.

Stern, Steve J. "The struggle for solidarity: class, culture & community in highland Indian America," Radical History Review 27 (1983):21-45.

Thurner, Mark. "Peasant politics & Andean haciendas in the transition to capitalism: an ethnographic history," Latin American Research Review 28,3 (1993):41-82.

Vanden, Harry E. "The peasants as a revolutionary class: an early Latin American view," Journal of Inter-American Studies & World Affairs 20,2 (5/78):191-209.

__________. "Marxism & the peasantry in Latin America: marginalization or mobilization?" Latin American Perspectives 9,4 (fall 82):74-98.

Villanueva, Victor. "The petty-bourgeois ideology of the Peruvian Aprista party." Latin American Perspectives 14 (sum 1977):57-76.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Alexander, Robert J. (ed.) Aprismo: The Ideas & Doctrines of Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre (Kent OH: Kent State U, 1973).

Arguedas, José María. Señores e indios. Acerca de la cultura quechua (Buenos Aires, 1976).

__________. Formación de una cultura nacional indoamericana (México, 1975).

Baines, John M. Revolution in Peru: Mariátegui & the Myth (University AL, 1972).

Beals, Carleton. Fire on the Andes (Philadelphia, 1934).

Becker, Marc. Mariátegui & Latin American Marxist Theory (Athens OH, 1993).

Bejar, Hector. Peru 1965 (NY, 196?)..

Blanco, Hugo. Land or Death. The Peasant Struggle in Peru (NY, 1972).

Bonilla, Heraclio. El minero de los Andes: una aproximación a su estudio (Lima, 1974).

__________ & Paul W. Drake (eds.) El APRA de la ideología a la praxis (Lima, 1989).

Bruno Jofre, Rosa del Carmen. Methodist Education in Peru: Social Gospel, Politics & American Ideological & Economic Penetration, 1888-1930 (Waterloo ONT, 1988).

Burga, Manuel y Alberto Flores Galindo. Apogeo y crisis de la República Aristocrática (Lima, 1981).

Carey, James. The US & Peru, 1900-1962 (?, ?)

Chang Rodríguez, Eugenio. La literatura política de González Prada, Mariátegui y Haya de la Torre (México, 1957).

Chaplin, David. The Peruvian Industrial Labor Force (Princeton, 1967).

Chavarría, Jesús. José Carlos Mariátegui & the Rise of Modern Peru, 1890-1930 (Albuquerque, 1979).

Cueto, Marcos (ed.) Saberes andinos. Ciencia y tecnología en Bolivia, Ecuador y Peru (Lima, 1995).

Davies, Thomas M. Jr. Indian Integration in Peru: A Half-Century of Experience, 1900-1948 (Lincoln, 1974).

De Ferrari, Gabriella. Gringa Latina: Woman of Two Worlds (NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1995).

DeWind, Josh. Peasants Become Miners: The Evolution of Industrial Mining Systems in Peru, 1902-1974 (NY, 1986).

Drake, Paul W. y Heraclio Bonilla. El APRA como partido y como gobierno (Lima, 1989).

Fitzgerald, E.V.K. The Political Economy of Peru, 1956-1978: Economic Development & the Restructuring of Capital (London, 1979.

Flores Galindo, Alberto. Los mineros de Cerro de Pasco, 1900-1930: un intento de caracterización social (Lima, 1974).

__________ Tiempo de plagas (Lima, 1988).

__________ (ed.) Comunidades campesinas: cambios y permanencias (Chiclayo, 1988).

__________ Buscando un inca: identidad y utopia en los Andes (Lima, 1985).

Ford, Thomas R. Man & Land in Peru (Gainesville, 1955).

Gardiner, C. Harvey. The Japanese & Peru, 1873-1973 (Albuquerque, 1976).

Glave, Luis M. Demografía y conflicto social: historia de las comunidades campesinas en los Andes del sur (Lima, 1988).

Goltz, Jürgen y Norma Adams. Los caballos de troya de los invasores: estrategias campesinas en la conquista de la Gran Lima (Lima, 1987).

Gonzales, Michael J. Plantation Agriculture & Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875-1933 (Austin, 1985).

Goodsell, Charles T. American Corporations & Peruvian Politics (Cambridge, 1974).

Gott, Richard. Guerrilla Movements in Latin America (NY: Anchor, 1972), chap. 4. Peruvian guerrilla movements of 1960s.

Handelman, Howard. Struggle in the Andes. Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru (Austin, 1974).

Harrison, Regina. Signs, Songs & Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language & Culture (Austin, 1989).

Hilliker, Grant G. The Politics of Reform in Peru. The Aprista & Other Mass Parties of Latin America (Baltimore, 1971).

Klarén, Peter F. Peru. Society & Nationhood in the Andes (NY, 1999).

Klaiber, Jeffrey SJ Religion & Revolution in Peru, 1824-1976 (Notre Dame, 1976).

Klarén, Peter. Modernization, Dislocation & Aprismo. Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932 (Austin, 1973).

Kofas, Jon V. Foreign Debt & Underdevelopment: US-Peru Economic Relations, 1930-1970 (Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1996).

Letts, Ricardo. La izquierda peruana: organizaciones y tendencias (Lima, 1981).

Lewellen, Ted. Peasants in Transition: The Changing Economy of the Peruvian Aymara (Boulder, 1978). Impact of Protestant missions & their literacy campaign on shores of Lake Titicaca.

Long, Norman & Bryan Roberts. Miners, Peasants & Entrepreneurs: Regional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru (NY, 1984).

Mallon, Florencia E. The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands. Peasant Struggle & Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940 (Princeton, 1983).

Malpica, Carlos. Crónica del hambre en el Perú (Lima, 1966).

__________. Los dueños del Perú (Lima, 1968).

Malpica, Mario. Biografía de la Revolución: historia y antología del pensamiento socialista (Lima, 1967). Good for its history in Peru.

Mangin, William (ed.) Peasants in Cities (Boston, 1970). Incl. several pieces on Lima's barriadas.

Mannheim, Bruce. The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion (Austin, 1991).

Mariátegui, José Carlos. Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana (Lima, 1928; English trans. Austin, 1971).

__________. "The Heroic & Creative Meaning of Socialism": Selected Essays (trans. M. Pearlman; Atlantic Highlands, 1996).

Matos Mar, José. Estudio de las barriadas limeñas (1965) (Lima, 1966).

__________ El Perú actual (sociedad y política) (México, 1970).

__________ y Jorge A. Carbajal H. Erasmo: yanacon del valle de Chancay (Lima, 1974).

__________. Yanaconaje y reforma agraria en el Peru (Lima, 1976).

__________. Desborde popular y crisis del estado: el nuevo rostro del Peru en la década de 1980 (Lima, 1981).

Mercier Vega, Luis. Guerrillas in Latin America. The Technique of Counterstate (NY, 1969).

Middlebrook, Kevin J. & David Scott Palmer. Military Government & Political Development: Lessons from Peru (London, 1975).

Miller, Rory (ed.) Region & Class in Modern Peruvian History (Liverpool, 1987).

Millones, Luis. Tugurio. La cultura de los marginados (Lima, 1978).

Mitchell, William P. Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult & Crisis in the Andes (Austin, 1991).

Neira Samanez, Hugo. Huillca: habla un campesino peruano (La Habana, 1974).

Orlove, Benjamin S. Alpacas, Sheep & Men. The Wool Export Economy & Regional Society in Southern Peru (NY, 1977).

Paige, Jeffery. Agrarian Revolution (NY, 1975).

Palmer, David Scott. Peru: The Authoritarian Tradition (NY, 1980).

Payne, James L. Labor & Politics in Peru (New Haven, 1965).

Peloso, Vincent C. Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor & Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru (Durham, 1998).

Poole, Deborah & Gerardo Rénique. Peru: Time of Fear (NY: Monthly Review, 1992).

Ravines, Eudocio. The Yenan Way (NY, 1951). An ex-Stalinist's critique of both APRA & the Peruvian Communist Party.

Rodíguez, Alfredo et al. De invasores a invadidos (Lima, 1976).

Ruiz Zevallos, Augusto. Psiquiatras y locos: entre la modernización contra los Andes y el nuevo proyecto de modernidad (Lima, 1994).

Rutte García, Alberto. Simplemente explotadas. El mundo de las empleadas domésticas en Lima (Lima, 1976).

Salazar Bondy, Sebastián. Lima la horrible (México, 1964).

Sharp, Daniel A. U.S. Foreign Policy & Peru (Austin, 1972).

Sommers, Joseph. Literature & Ideology: Vargas Llosa's Novelistic Evaluation of Militarism (NYU Iberian Language & Literature Occasional Paper 15; NY, 1975).

Starn, Orin; Carlos Ivan Degregori & Robin Kirk (eds.) The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham NC, 1995).

Stein, William W. Dance in the Cemetery: José Carlos Mariátegui & the Lima Scandal of 1917 (Lanham MD, 1997).

Tullis, F. Lamond. Lord & Peasant in Peru. A Paradigm of Political & Social Change (Cambridge MA, 1973).

Vanden, Harry E. National Marxism in Latin America: José Carlos Mariátegui's Thought & Politics (Boulder, 1986).

Vargas Llosa, Mario. La utopía arcáica: José María Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo (México, 1996).

Weeks, John. Limits to Capitalist Development: The Industrialization of Peru, 1950-1980 (Boulder, 1985).

Yglesias, José. Down There (NY, 1970). Eyewitness account of the Velasco "revolution" & its confrontations with the APRA.

In the Library: Fiction

Alegría, Ciro. El mundo es ancho y ajeno

__________. Duelo de caballeros (Buenos Aires, 1965).

__________. Los perros hambrientos

Arguedas, José María. Todas las sangres

__________. Amor mundo y todos los cuentos

__________. Agua y otros cuentos indígenas (Lima, 1974).

__________. El sexto

__________. Los ríos profundos (English trans. Deep Rivers; Austin, 1978).

Bryce Echenique, Alfredo. Mundo para Julius (A World for Julius: A Novel) (Lima, 19??; English trans. Dick Gerdes; Austin: U. of Texas, 1992).

Ley, Gary. Strange Tunnels Disappearing (Bridgend: Seren, 2002).

López Albujar, Enrique. Matanache

Matto de Turner, Clorinda. Aves sin nido (Torn from the Nest) (Lima, 190?; English trans. John H.R. Polt; NY: Oxford, 1998).

Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto: A Novel (NY: Harper Perennial, 2001). Novel based loosely on occupation of Lima's Japanese Embassy by Tupac Amaru guerrillas, notable for representation of "terrorists" as human beings accessible to communication.

Scorza, Manuel. La tumba del relámpago (Requiem for a Lightning Bolt) (México, 1979; English trans. Ana Maria Aldaz; NY: P. Lang, 2000).

__________. Redoble por Rancas (Barcelona, 1983).

__________. Cantar de Agapito Robles (The Ballad of Agapito Robles) (NY: P. Lang, 1999).

__________. Historia de Garabombo, el invisible (Garabombo, the Invisible) (Barcelona, 1984; English trans. Ana Maria Aldaz; NY: P. Lang, 1994).

Vallejo, César. El tungsteno (novela proletaria) (Tungsten: a Novel) (Lima: Fondo de Cultura Popular, 1965; Engish trans. Robert Mezey; Syracuse NY: Syracuse U., 1988).

Vargas Llosa, Mario. Conversación en la catedral (Conversation in the Cathedral) (Lima?, 1969; English trans. ?). "Totalizing novel" about Peru under the Odría dictatorship in the 1950s.

__________. Pantaleón y las visitadoras (Captain Pantoja and the Secret Service)

__________. Los cachorros

__________. La ciudad y los perros (The Time of the Hero) (Lima, 1962; English trans. 1963).

__________. Historia de Mayta [The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta] (English trans. NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1986).

__________. La tia julia y el escribidor [Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter] (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1977; English trans. NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1982).

__________. Lituma en los Andes [Death in the Andes] (?, 1993; English trans. Edith Grossman; NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1996).

Wheeler, Kate. When Mountains Walked (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

In the Library: For Young Readers

In the Library: Poetry

Heraud, Javier. Poesías completas y cartas (Lima, 1976).

Santa Cruz, Nicomedes. Décimas y poemas, antología (Lima, 1971).

In the Library: Drama

In the Library: Photography

Ranney, Edward & Publio López Mondéjar (eds.) Martín Chambi. Photographs, 1920-1950 (?, 1993).

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