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Charles F. Walker
A social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746, looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster.
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Shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the…
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Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain’s American empire, led by Latin America’s most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as…
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Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru’s capital city, featuring a selection of…
Charles F. Walker, Liz Clarke
The Tupac Amaru rebellion of 1780-1783 began as a local revolt against colonial authorities and grew into the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire-more widespread and deadlier…
Alberto Flores Galindo
In Search of an Inca examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice, from the time of the Spanish conquest…
Jose Carlos Aguero
The Surrendered is Peruvian public intellectual Jose Carlos Aguero’s reflections on his parents-who were executed by the state for being Shining Path militants-as well as the legacies of the Peruvian…
Charles Dickens
Unusually for Dickens, the novel is set in the imaginary industrial town of Coketown, the soulless domain of the strict Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Bounderby. Human joy is…
Benjamin F Cooper
Full Title: "A Report of The Case in Chancery, of Thomas R. Walker, Complainant, vs. Nicholas Devereux, Rutger B. Miller, John E. Hinman, Alfred Munson, John Townsend, Nathaniel S. Benton…
Charles Vincent Walker Olinthus Joyce
This book is an entertaining and educational resource for young people to learn about natural and experimental philosophy. The dialogues are engaging and cover the first principles of the subject…
Charles Howard 1857-1936 Walker
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Charles Frederick Cross,Edward John Bevan,Robert Walker Sindall
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
