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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 day.

The result of painstaking research in remote rural archives, some of them now made inaccessible by the Shining Path, Mirages of Transition will become the definitive work on the Peruvian highlands.

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"One of the finest works on Latin America to come along in a decade. . . . Jacobsen's methods . . . have relevance for many other areas of rural Latin America. . . [and] will set the standard for some time to come."Erick D. Langer, Carnegie-Mellon University"

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  • Title Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780-1930
  • Author Nils Jacobsen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 508
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Publication date 1993-10-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780520082915 / 0520082915
  • Weight 1.84 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 6.14 x 1.3 in (23.16 x 15.60 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Azangaro (Peru: Province) - Economic, Azangaro (Peru: Province) - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92033342
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.985

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Nils Jacobsen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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