Mirages of Transition
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administration
andean plateau
argentina
Author_Nils Jacobsen
bolivia
business development
capitalism
case study
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chile
collao
colonialism
cultural studies
economic analysis
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high altitude
institutional history
lake titicaca
latin america
latin american history
market economy
peru
peruvian altiplano
peruvian highlands
peruvian history
plains
politics
power
rural
rural andes
shining path
social analysis
social identity
south america
Product details
- ISBN 9780520082915
- Weight: 816g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Nils Jacobsen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
