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Title: From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru (Latin America Otherwise) by Mark Thurner ISBN: 0-8223-1812-1 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

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Summary: Edit, please
Comment: This is a very poorly written piece of history. I'm not an expert on the topic but I know that most English teaches would have returned this. He should have improved the writing and the editors should have intervened.

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Summary: Insightful view of Indians and nation in 19th-century Peru
Comment: Mark Thurner's recent FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED is a landmark contribution to Andean history and historical anthroplogy writ large--a book bound to provoke healthy controversy among scholars and students alike. This is the first book-length study to deploy insights from "post-colonial" theory to explore the complex roles of indigenous peoples in the politics and political imagination of republican Peru. Based on remarkable archival research about indigenous communities and the state in the little-studied Huaylas-Ancash region, the book begins by insightfuly tracing the paradoxical fate of the so-called colonial "Indian republics" in early republican politics. The second half of the book zeros in on the Atusparia revolt of the latter part of the century, as a sign of the widening gulf between Creole nationhood and indigenous politics as Peru approached the 20th century. All in all, Thurner offers a complex and thoughtful alternative to both "integrationist" and "resistance" visions of the role of Indians in the liberal-republican world, and in its theoretical sections new ways of thinking about ethnicity and the "national problem" across Latin American history. The American Historical Review already hails this work as "an important book" that provides a "pathbreaking analysis of peasants'use of republican discourse." The Hispanic American Historical Review proclaims it a "sophisticated study" with "impressive" "intellectual and analytical power". Whatever, FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED ought be on the shelf of every serious (and not-so-serious) student of the region.

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