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...
This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultura...
Nils Jacobsen Cristobal Aljovin Losada Cristobal Aljovin d
A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures.
The...
A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical st...
This unprecedented collection combines economic, political, and intellectual history in its analysis of economic liberalism in Latin America. The volume demonstrates the unique and varied features of Latin American liberalism from its formative period up to 1940 and discusses its relation to state formation.
This unprecedented collection combines economic, political, and intellectual history in its analysis of economic liberalism in Latin America. The volu...
A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures.
The...
A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical st...
Apple ist grosser, wertvoller und machtiger als je zuvor. Doch im Zenit der Macht liegt bekanntlich der Keim des Niedergangs. Wie andere Imperien in der Geschichte ist auch Apples scheinbar unangefochtene Regentschaft vom Verfall bedroht. Die Apple Watch, die erste neue Produktkategorie seit funf Jahren, tut sich schwerer als erwartet. Und wie lange kann das iPhone eigentlich noch sein bemerkenswertes Wachstum fortsetzen?
Das Apple-Imperium 2.0 beleuchtet Apple als Wirtschaftsunternehmen und das vor allem in der Ara des neuen Regenten Tim Cook....
Das Apple-Imperium 2.0
Apple ist grosser, wertvoller und machtiger als je zuvor. Doch im Zenit der Macht liegt bekanntlich der Keim de...
