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 primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the “City of Kings.”
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I: Pre-Hispanic, Conquest, and Early Colonial Lima
- Pre-Hispanic
Lima, César Pacheco Vélez
- The Foundation of Lima, Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca
- The Form and Greatness of Lima, Bernabé Cobo
- Lima’s Convents, José de la Riva-Agüero
- The Spiritual Diary of an Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús
- Auto-da-Fé and Procession, Josephe and Francisco Mugaburu
- Margarita’s Wedding Dress, Ricardo Palma
- II: Bourbon Lima
- Of the Inhabitants of Lima, Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa
- The 1746 Earthquake, Anonymous
- A Failed Indian Uprising, Anonymous
- Lima and Cuzco, Concolorcorvo
- Slave Religion and Culture, Hesperióphylo
- Faces of All Colors, Hipólito Ruiz
- Impressions of Lima, Alexander von Humboldt
- III: From Independence to the War of the Pacific (1821–1883)
- Lima in 1821, Basil Hall
- The Passion for Bullfighting, William S. W. Ruschenberger
- Pancho Fierro, Natalia Majluf
- A Slave Plantation, Flora Tristán
- The Saddest City, Herman Melville
- Lima’s Carnival and Its Glories, Manuel Atanasio Fuentes
- The Amancaes Parade, Ismael Portal
- Chinese Are Not Welcome, Mariano Castro Zaldívar
- The National Library and the Chilean Occupation, E. W. Middendorf
- IV: Modernizing Lima (1895–1940)
- The Transformation of Lima after 1895, José Gálvez
- A Middle-Class
House in 1900, Luis Alberto Sánchez
- The Growing Popular Taste for Soccer, El Comercio
- The Lord of the Miracles Procession, José Carlos Mariátegui
- Dance in the Cemetery, El Tiempo
- On the Streetcar, Martín Adán
- Leguía’s Lima, Guillermo Rodríguez Mariátegui
- The Paperboy, Felipe Pinglo Alva
- Daily Life of a Domestic Servant, Laura Miller
- V: Interlude: Nostalgia and Its Discontents
- The True Lima, Chabuca Granda
- Color Plates
- The Mislaid Nostalgia, Sebastián Salazar Bondy
- One of the Ugliest Cities in the World?, Alberto Flores Galindo
- Understanding Huachafería, Mario Vargas Llosa
- VI: The Many Limas (1940–)
- Malambo, a Black Neighborhood, Hugo Marquina Ríos
- The Original Mansion, Alfredo Bryce Echenique
- Diego Ferré and Miraflores, Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Banquet, Julio Ramón Ribeyro
- A Serrano Family in Lima, Richard W. Patch
- The Great March of Villa El Salvador, José María Salcedo
- Being Young and Radical (Late 1960s and 1970s), Maruja Martínez
- The Day Lima Erupted, Enrique Zileri
- A City of Outsiders, José Matos Mar
- The Israelites of the New Universal Covenant, Peter Masson
- María Elena Moyano, Robin Kirk
- The Tarata Street Bombing: July 16, 1992, Peruvian Truth
and Reconciliation Commission
- Shining Path: A Prisoner’s Testimony, Peruvian Truth
and Reconciliation Commission
- Twenty-First-Century Feudalism, Wilfredo Ardito Vega
- Chicha and Huayno: Andean Music and Culture in Lima,
Gisela Cánepa
- That Sickly Applause, “El cholo Juan"
- Life among the Pirates, Daniel Alarcón
- How Food Became Religion in Peru’s Capital City, Marco Avilés
- Green Vultures, Charles F. Walker
- Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
- Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources
- Index
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