The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment by Carlos Aguirre,Paulo Drinot PDF

By Carlos Aguirre,Paulo Drinot

ISBN-10: 1477312110

ISBN-13: 9781477312117

ISBN-10: 1477312129

ISBN-13: 9781477312124

On October three, 1968, an army junta led via basic Juan Velasco Alvarado took over the govt of Peru. In outstanding distinction to the right-wing, pro–United States/anti-Communist army dictatorships of that period, even though, Velasco's "Revolutionary govt of the defense force" set in movement a left-leaning nationalist undertaking aimed toward greatly remodeling Peruvian society by means of putting off social injustice, breaking the cycle of overseas domination, redistributing land and wealth, and putting the future of Peruvians into their very own fingers. even supposing short-lived, the Velasco regime did certainly have a transformative influence on Peru, the that means and legacy of that are nonetheless topics of excessive debate.

The unusual Revolution revisits this interesting and idiosyncratic interval of Latin American background. The ebook is equipped into 3 sections that learn the era's cultural politics, together with not only advancements directed by means of the Velasco regime but additionally those who it engendered yet didn't unavoidably keep watch over; its particular guidelines and key associations; and the neighborhood and local dimensions of the social reforms it promoted. In a sequence of leading edge chapters written via either well-known and emerging historians, this quantity illuminates the cultural dimensions of the progressive venture and its legacies, the impression of structural reforms on the neighborhood point (including formerly understudied parts of the rustic resembling Piura, Chimbote, and the Amazonia), and the consequences of nation rules on traditional voters and exertions and peasant organizations.

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