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Gente como Uno
In San Isidro, Lima, the only Jewish school in Peru stands on a street widely known as “Los Manzanos” (“The Apple Trees”) but whose name changes to “Maimonides” (the Jewish sage) depending on which sign you look at. As she takes us on a stroll through this six-block street and its different names, Dr. Romina Yalonetzky introduces readers to a physical microcosm of the intersection between Peruvian and Jewish identity, elucidated through the varied voices and experiences of Peruvian Jews. This book sheds a novel light on both Jewish and Peruvian identities.
En pos de la República
Esta colección de ensayos de Carmen Mc Evoy busca rescatar del olvido a personajes que intervinieron en la defición del Estado-Nación durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX, participando en las pugnas y en las polémicas destinadas a renovar las estructuras institucionales en clave republicana y liberal. A partir de sus biografías la autora recrea el clima de la época que les tocó vivir, subrayando los dilemas que enfrentaron y la naturaleza experimental, incierta, de la acción política, que emprendieron a fin de constituir una comunidad política basada en principios republicanos y liberales. Además de la importante revisión histórica, el tema y el tratamiento original de Carmen Mc Evoy le otorgan al volumen una sorprendente actualidad.(Julio Cotler).
Peru
This paper reviews monetary and exchange rate policies in Peru in 1930-80. The review covers major transformations to the world economy, including the post-1929 crash and WWII, and changing economic paradigms, such as the collapse of the gold standard and the rise and fall of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates. The analysis emphasizes the lasting partnership between Peruvian policymakers and the Bretton Woods institutions, while stressing the local authorities’ ownership of final policy decisions. The review shows that, in general, during the fifty year period under analysis, the Peruvian authorities sought to deliver nominal exchange rate stability, even at the cost of introducing market distortions and/or incurring heavy losses in international reserves.
Market Reform in Society
Going beyond the usual state-centric approach to the study of the politics of neoliberal reform, Moisés Arce emphasizes the importance of understanding the interaction between state reformers and collective actors in society. In Market Reform in Society he helpfully focuses our attention on how various societal groups are affected by different types of reform and how their responses in turn affect the state’s subsequent pursuit of reform. As a country characterized by strong state autonomy and widespread disintegration of civil society and representative institutions during the 1990s when Alberto Fujimori was president, Peru serves as an excellent case for examining how collective actors can succeed in influencing the reform process. Arce compares reforms in three areas: taxation, pension privatization, and social-sector programs in poverty alleviation and health decentralization. Differences in the concentration or dispersion of costs and benefits, he shows, affected incentives for groups to form and engage in collective action for supporting, opposing, or modifying the reforms.
Feminism and the Body
By definition, feminism is concerned with the historical, social and political meanings of sexual difference in the human body, and the spectrum of experiences those meanings produce. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, gendered forms of violence persist, abortion remains a political issue, reproductive and cosmetic technologies and their concomitant ethical questions are proliferating, and the presence of women’s bodies in public spaces and for public consumption produces a range of anxieties about women’s well-being and the common good. Feminist scholars from across the disciplines grapple with these issues in Feminism and the Body. In so doing they continue a history of inte...
Imaginar la nación
Bajo la bruma de la derrota en la Guerra del Pacífico, ante el reto de la reconstrucción, emerge el perfil de un “verdadero Perú”, andino e indígena. Con la palabra escrita y su propia imaginación como vehículos emprende su exploración la intelectualidad. Como negación idealizada del país derrotado en las pampas de San Juan, como tierra prometida de la nacionalidad, brota de sus escritos la región serrana. Trazan sus viajes letrados la hoja de ruta moral para una refundación nacional. Del pasado prehispánico a la vanguardia europea vuela la imaginación en busca de una perspectiva general. Va desbrozando la “ficción” el camino hacia la “realidad”: de la imaginación literaria a la voluntad de acción. Del célebre “Discurso del Politeama” de 1888 a la Revolución de Trujillo de 1932 —releyendo textos, exhumando diálogos, sondeando sensibilidades— se rastrea aquí aquellos paradigmáticos viajes en pos del “verdadero Perú”. En su proximidad a los protagonistas, tanto como en la diversidad de sus voces, radica el principal aporte de este libro a la incesante tarea de imaginarnos como nación.
Golden Kingdoms
This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only...
Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
2001
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
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