IN THE WONDERLAND OF PERU

IN THE WONDERLAND OF PERU PDF Author: HIRAM. BINGHAM
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ISBN: 9781033105085
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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IN THE WONDERLAND OF PERU

IN THE WONDERLAND OF PERU PDF Author: HIRAM. BINGHAM
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ISBN: 9781033105085
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The National Geographic Magazine

The National Geographic Magazine PDF Author:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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The Peru Reader

The Peru Reader PDF Author: Orin Starn
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316176
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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A collection of essays, folklore, historical documents, poetry, songs, short stories, autobiographical accounts and photographs.

The Machu Picchu Guidebook

The Machu Picchu Guidebook PDF Author: Ruth M. Wright
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555663278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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"The best all around guide for those who've been or who are going to Machu Picchu . . . . Absolutely indispensable!"--Don Montague, president, South American Explorers. This revised edition includes newly discovered sites and full-color illustrations of real-life scenes from "National Geographic."

Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru

Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru PDF Author: Hiram Bingham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312920009
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Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Itinerant Ideas

Itinerant Ideas PDF Author: Joanna Crow
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031019520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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This book explores how ideas about race travelled across national borders in early twentieth-century Latin America. It builds on a vast array of scholarly works which underscore the highly contingent and flexible nature of race and racism in the region. The framework of the nation-state dominates much of this scholarship, in part because of the important implications of ideas about race for state policies. This book argues that we need to investigate the cross-border elaboration of ideas that informed and fed into these policies. It is organized around three key policy areas – labour, cultural heritage, and education – and focuses on conversations between Chilean and Peruvian intellectuals about the ‘indigenous question’. Most historical scholarship on Chile and Peru draws attention to the wars fought in the nineteenth century and their long-term consequences, which reverberate to this day. Relations between the two countries are therefore interpreted almost exclusively as antagonistic and hostile. Itinerant Ideas challenges this dominant historical narrative.

Framing a Lost City

Framing a Lost City PDF Author: Amy Cox Hall
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477313702
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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An “engaging” study of Machu Picchu’s transformation from ruin to World Heritage site, and the role a National Geographic photo feature played (Latin American Research Review). When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed by a few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation began with the photographs that accompanied Bingham’s article were published in National Geographic magazine, which depicted Machu Picchu as a lost city discovered. Focusing on the practices, technologies, and materializations of Bingham’s three expeditions to Peru in the first decade of the twentieth century, this book makes a convincing case that visualization, particularly through the camera, played a decisive role in positioning Machu Picchu as both a scientific discovery and a Peruvian heritage site. Amy Cox Hall argues that while Bingham’s expeditions relied on the labor, knowledge, and support of Peruvian elites, intellectuals, and peasants, the practice of scientific witnessing, and photography specifically, converted Machu Picchu into a cultural artifact fashioned from a distinct way of seeing. Drawing on science and technology studies, she situates letter writing, artifact collecting, and photography as important expeditionary practices that helped shape the way we understand Machu Picchu today. Cox Hall also demonstrates that the photographic evidence was unstable, and, as images circulated worldwide, the “lost city” took on different meanings—especially in Peru, which came to view the site as one of national patrimony in need of protection from expeditions such as Bingham’s.

History Shock

History Shock PDF Author: John Dickson
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632026
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In History Shock: When History Collides with Foreign Relations Dickson offers valuable insights into the daily life of a Foreign Service officer and the work of representing the United States. Dickson organizes History Shock around a country-by-country series of lively personal experience vignettes followed by compelling historical analyses of the ways in which his inadequate understanding of the host country’s history, particularly its prior history with the United States, combined with his lack of knowledge of his own nation’s history led to history shock: where dramatically different interpretations of history blocked diplomatic understanding and cooperation. John Dickson offers these “stories with a history” to highlight the interaction between history and foreign relations and to underscore the costs of not knowing the history of our partners and adversaries, much less our own. In both Mexico and Canada in particular we see how our lack of knowledge and understanding of how our long history of military interventions continues to complicate our efforts at developing mutually beneficial relationships with our two closest neighbors. In Nigeria and South Africa, Dickson experienced firsthand how the history of racism in the United States plays out on a world stage and clouds our ability to effectively work with key African nations. Perhaps the starkest example of history shock, of two nations with deeply conflicted views of their own histories and their shared history, is another country near at hand, Cuba. Not all of the gaps are too wide for bridge building; in Peru, Dickson provides an example of how history can be deployed to mutual advantage. The Foreign Service has long sought to improve its training, to provide some form of “playbook” or “operating manual” with systematic case studies for its officers. In History Shock Dickson provides not only a model for such case studies but also a unique contribution of an interpretive framework for how to remedy this deficit, including recommendations for strengthening historical literacy in the Foreign Service.

Monthly Weather Review

Monthly Weather Review PDF Author:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 1060

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Bibliography on the Climate of South America

Bibliography on the Climate of South America PDF Author: Margaret Morris Welch De Le Vin
Publisher:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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