The Peculiar Revolution : : Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule /

The Peculiar Revolution : : Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule / / ed. by Paulo Drinot, Carlos Aguirre.

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On October 3, 1968, a military junta led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado took over the government of Peru. In striking contrast to the right-wing, pro–United States/anti-Communist military dictatorships of that era, however, Velasco’s “Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces” set in motion a l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Aguirre, Carlos,
Cant, Anna,
Carey, Mark,
Clarke, Nathan,
Drinot, Paulo,
Heilman, Jaymie Patricia,
Hurtado, Lourdes,
Lerner, Adrián,
Oliart, Patricia,
Philip, George,
Rice, Mark,
Varese, Stefano,
Walker, Charles F.,
HerausgeberIn:
Aguirre, Carlos,
Drinot, Paulo,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Symbols, Icons, and Contested Memories: Cultural Approaches to the Peruvian Revolution
  • 1. The Second Liberation? Military Nationalism and the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of Peruvian Independence, 1821–1971
  • 2. The General and His Rebel: Juan Velasco Alvarado and the Reinvention of Túpac Amaru II
  • 3. Who Drove the Revolution’s Hearse? The Funeral of Juan Velasco Alvarado
  • 4. Remembering Velasco: Contested Memories of the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces
  • PART II. Teachers, Peasants, Generals: Military Nationalism and Its Agents
  • 5. Politicizing Education: The 1972 Reform in Peru
  • 6. Through Fire and Blood: The Peruvian Peasant Confederation and the Velasco Regime
  • 7. Velasco, Nationalist Rhetoric, and Military Culture in Cold War Peru
  • 8. Velasco and the Military: The Politics of Decline, 1973–1975
  • PART III. Decentering the Revolution: Regional Approaches to Velasco’s Peru
  • 9. Promoting the Revolution: SINAMOS in Three Different Regions of Peru
  • 10. Watering the Desert, Feeding the Revolution: Velasco’s Influence on Water Law and Agriculture on Peru’s North-Central Coast (Chavimochic)
  • 11. Chimbotazo: The Peruvian Revolution and Labor in Chimbote, 1968–1973
  • 12. Generals, Hotels, and Hippies: Velasco-Era Tourism Development and Conflict in Cuzco
  • 13. From Repression to Revolution: Velasquismo in Amazonia, 1968–1975
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index

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