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Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 51.00George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick?s narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and... more...
Toward High-quality Education in Peru
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 19.99This book has three main recommendations. First, it is necessary to generate basic standards, quality goals, and quality measurement systems. Second, once quality can be measured, a clear system of accountability should be implemented based on these standards and quality goals. The clients will play a central role in these systems by demanding their... more...
Intercultural Education and Literacy
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 158.00Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of contributing to this process. The book investigates education... more...
Demographic Collapse
Cambridge University Press 1982; US$ 40.00A thorough examination of the catastrophic numerical decline of the native population of Peru. more...
Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios reales de los Incas
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 42.00This study of the Comentarios is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach. more...
Vicos and Beyond
AltaMira Press 2010; US$ 74.99From 1952 to 1962, anthropologists funded by Cornell University sought to apply anthropological knowledge to improving life in Vicos, a village of about 1,800 people in the Peruvian Andes. This collection evaluates the methods and results of the famous, and even infamous, Vicos Project. more...
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
Basic Books 2006; US$ 18.99One of America’s leading black intellectuals teams up with Myrlie Evers-Williams to bring us the first-ever definitive look at the life, work, and tragic death of civil rights hero Medgar Evers more...
An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 17.95Available in English for the first time, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru is a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated in 1570 by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui - the penultimate ruler of the Inca dynasty - to a Spanish missionary and transcribed by a mestizo assistant. The resulting hybrid document offers an Inca perspective... more...
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 60.00Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged... more...









