The Peru Reader

Suggestions for further reading

The ancient civilizations

• Lumbreras, Luis. The Peoples and Cultures of Ancient Peru. 1974.
• MacCormack, Sabine. Religion in the Andes. 1992
• Moseley, MIchael. The Incas and Their Ancestors. 1992.
• Murra, John. Formaciones económicas y políticas del mundo andino. 1975.
• Rostworowski, María. Historia del Tahuantinsuyu. 1988.
• Zuidema, R.T. Reyes y guerreros: Ensayos de cultura andina. 1990.

Conquest and colonial rule

• Glave, Luis Miguel. Trajinantes: Caminos indigenas en la sociedad colonial, siglo XVI-XVII. 1989.
• Gutiérrez, Gustavo. Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ. 1993.
• Noble, David Cook, and Alexandra Parma Cook. Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy. 1991. 1993.
• Spalding, Karen. Huarochiri: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule. 1984.
• Stern, Steve J., ed. Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 16th-19th Century. 1989.
• Varese, Stefano. La sal de los cerros. 1968.

Republican Peru

• Bonilla, Heraclio, ed. La independencia en el Perú. 1981.
• Gootenberg, Paul. Imagining Development: Economic Ideas in Peru's "Fictitious Prosperity" of Guano, 1840-1930. 1993.
• Krital, Efraín. The Andes Viewed from the City: History and Political Discourse on the Indian in Peru, 1848-1930. 1987.
• Manrique, Nelson. Campesinado y nación: Las guerrillas indigenas en la guerra con Chile. 1981.
• Taylor, Lewis. Bandits and Politics in Peru: Landlord and Peasant Violence in Hualgayoc, 1900-1930. 1987.
• Thurner, Mark. From Two Republics to One Divided: The Contradictions of Postcolonial Nation-Making in Andean Peru. 1992.

The Advent of Modern Politics

• Cotler, Julio. Clase, estado, y nación en el Perú. 1978.
• De la Cadena, Marisol. Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, 1919-1991.
• Flores Galindo, Alberto. La agonía de Mariátegui. 1989.
• Klarén, Peter. Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo: The Origins of Peru's Aprista Party, 1870-1932. 1973.
• Mariátegui, José Carlos. Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality. 1971.
• Stein, Steve. Populism in Peru: The Emergence of the Masses and the Politics of Social Control. 1980.

The Breakup of the Old Order

• Alegría, Ciro. The World Is Broad and Alien. 1973.
• Arguedas, José María. Deep Rivers. 1978.
• Arguedas, José María. Yawar Fiesta. 1985.
• Brown, Michael, and Eduardo Fernández. War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon. 1991.
• Lowenthal, Abraham, ed. The Peruvian Experiment. 1975.
• Matos Mar, José, and José Carlos Mejía. La reforma agraria en el Perú. 1980.
• McClintock, Cynthia, and Abraham Lowenthal, eds. The Peruvian Experiment Reconsidered. 1983.
• Thorndike, Guillermo. No, mi general. 1976.

The Shining Path

• Degregori, Carlos Iván. Ayacucho 1969-1979: El surgimiento de Sendero Luminoso. 1990.
• DESCO. Violencía Política en el Perú. 1989.
• Gorriti, Gustavo. Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. 1999.
• Stern, Steve J., ed. Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995. 1998.

Manchay Tiempo

• Americas Watch. Untold Terror: Violence against Women in Peru's Armed Conflict. 1992.
• Degregori, Carols Iván, José Coronel, Ponciano del Pino, and Orin Starn. Las rondas campesinas y la derrota de Sendero Luminoso. 1996.
• Gamboa, Jeremías, ed. Yuyanapaq: Relato visual del conflicto armado en el Perú. 2003.
• Kirk, Robin. The Monkey's Paw: New Chronicles from Peru. 1997.
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Final Report. 2003.
• Youngers, Coletta. Violencia política y sociedad civil en el Perú: Historia de la Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos. 2003.

The Cocaine Economy

• Carpenter, Ted Galen. Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America. 2003.
• Cultural Survival. "Coca and Cocaine: Effects on People and Policy in Latin America". 1986.
• Kennedy, Joseph. Coca Exótica. 1985.
• Morales, Edmundo. Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru. 1989.

The Struggle for Survival

• De Soto, Hernando. The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. 1989.
• García, María Elena. Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Education, and Multicultural Development in Peru. 2005.
• Golte, Jürgen, and Norma Adams. Los caballos de Troya de los invasores: Estrategias campesinas en la conquista de Gran Lima. 1987.
• Klarén, Peter. Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes. 2000.
• Starn, Orin. Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes. 1999.
• Wise, Carol. Reinventing the State: Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru. 2002.

Culture(s) Redefined

• Cornejo Polar, Antonio Vidal, Luis Fernando Vidal, eds. Nuevo Cuento Peruano. 1986.
• Degregori, Carlos Iván, Cecilia Blondet, and Nicolás Lynch. Conquistadores de un nuevo mundo: De invasores a ciudadanos en San Martin de Porres. 1986.
• Silva-Santiesteban, Ricardo, ed. Poesía Peruana, Antología General. 1984.
• Vargas Llosa, Mario. A Fish in the Water: A Memoir. 1994.
• Vásquez, Chilean, and Abilio Vergara. Chayraq! Carnaval Ayacuchano. 1988.