Free Download John Crabtree, "Peru: Elite Power and Political Capture"
English | ISBN: 1783609044 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
While leftist governments have been elected across Latin America, this 'Pink Tide' has so far failed to reach Peru. Instead, the corporate elite remains firmly entrenched, and the left continues to be marginalised. Peru therefore represents a particularly stark example of 'state capture', in which an extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a few corporations and pro-market technocrats has resulted in a monopoly on political power.
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Free Download Joseph P. Feldman, "Memories before the State: Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion "
English | ISBN: 1978809514 | 2021 | 212 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Honorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
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Cocina de Peru: The Best of Peruvian Cuisine by Nancy Silverman
English | May 1, 2019 | ISBN: 109651320X | 83 pages | EPUB | 2.49 Mb
Situated on the western coast of South America, Peru is a country rich in climate, topography, history, and culture. Although its official language is Spanish, Peru is an ethnically diverse country due to its indigenous populations as well as colonizer and immigrant history from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Because of its wide range of cultural influences, Peruvian food represents true "Fusion" cuisine. Its main staples include corn, potatoes, grains such as quinoa, and beans. If you've ever needed to try Peruvian foods without having to leave home, then this would be the perfect cookbook for you. Inside this book, you will learn how to make a variety of authentic Peruvian food with recipes such as:
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Inventing Lima: Baroque Modernity in Peru's South Sea Metropolis By Alejandra B. Osorio
2008 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 140397604X | PDF | 3 MB
Inventing Lima is the first synthetic cultural history of Peru's baroque "City of the Kings." Professor Osorio's interpretation of ritual life in the Peruvian metropolis significantly revises our understanding of the colonial history of Latin America. Osorio argues that Lima was a baroque "border city" that linked the South Sea with the Andes. As the "Head city" of the Viceroyalty of Peru, Lima came to govern and represent a vast and rich domain within Spain's worldwide empire. This meticulously documented and theoretically informed study is must reading for all those interested in the modern history of cities and empires.
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A New Social Contract for Peru: An Agenda for Improving Education, Health Care, and the Social Safety Net By Daniel Cotlear
2006 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 0821365673 | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the issues of accountability in the delivery of public services. Each chapter of the book incorporates, in addition to technical, economic, and statistical analysis, an analysis of the institutional context for service delivery. A common theme that cuts across this book is the issue of accountability as developed by the World Bank in its 'World Development Report: Making Services Work for Poor People' (2004). The main conclusion of the book is that, while Peru has made significant progress in both education and health care, there remain significant challenges to achieving greater equity and better quality of services, particularly for the poor. The book finds that Peru has achieved high levels of coverage in all levels of education and in some programs of basic health care and of social assistance. Still, the average quality of most of these programs is low, and health and education outcomes are extremely inequitable. The book recommends three types of interventions: a. quality standards and quantitative goals need to be set, b. accountability chains need to be established so that providers take responsibility for their services; and c. investments are needed to create and sustain the capacity to reach these goals.
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Irene Silverblatt, "Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0822334178, 0822334062 | PDF | pages: 432 | 2.4 mb
Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes Arendt's insights into the barbaric underside of Western civilization and moves them back to the sixteenth century and seventeenth, when Spanish colonialism dominated the globe. Irene Silverblatt describes how the modern world developed in tandem with Spanish imperialism and argues that key characteristics of the modern state are evident in the workings of the Inquisition. Her analysis of the tribunal's persecution of women and men in colonial Peru illuminates modernity's intricate "dance of bureaucracy and race."
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Omar Awapara, "The Geography of Trade Liberalization: Peru's Free Trade Continuity in Comparative Perspective "
English | ISBN: 3031234197 | 2023 | 260 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book answers why anti-trade forces in developing countries sometimes fail to effectively exert pressure on their governments. The backlash against globalization spread across several Latin American countries in the 2000s, yet a few countries such as Peru doubled down on their bets on free trade by signing bilateral agreements with the US and the EU. This study uses evidence from three Latin American countries (Peru, Argentina, and Bolivia) to suggest that geography can play a significant role in shaping trade preferences and undermining the formation and clout of distributional coalitions that seek protectionism. Because trade liberalization can have uneven distributional impacts along regional lines, trade liberalization losers can find themselves in unfavorable conditions to associate and engage in collective action. Under these circumstances, few coalitions emerge to battle for protection in the policy arena, and when they do, geographic distance from decision-makers in the capital city can be a significant barrier to realizing their interests. As a result, even where a majority of the population living in regions that have not benefitted from trade elect a leftist president, trade reform reversal will not occur unless protectionist interests are close to the capital city. The contrast between Peru, on one side, and Argentina and Bolivia, on the other, highlights the powerful influence geography can have on reversing trade policy or preserving the status quo.
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