Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru s capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the City of Kings. "

Covering more than five hundred years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader captures the multiple viewpoints of the diverse peoples of Peru s capital city. The volume traces Lima s transformation from a pre-Columbian religious center, to the colonial City of Kings, to today's vibrant and deeply divided metropolis of almost ten million people. A rich array of primary sources including traveler accounts, essays, photographs, maps, poems, short stories, lyrics, and memoir excerpts, many appearing in English for the first time address how Lima s multiethnic population, class...

In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, Smoldering Ashes highlights the promises and frustrations of a critical period whose long shadow remains cast on...