Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840.(Review)

Journal of Social History | December 22, 2000| | Copyright

Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840. By Charles F. Walker (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. xiii plus 352 pp. $49.95/cloth 17.95/paperback).

In recent years Duke University Press has published or republished a series of historical studies of Latin America under the rubric of "Latin America Otherwise." A number of the books in the series deal with the Andean region of South America (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador), and the book reviewed here is one of the latest in the series. Many of the volumes draw inspiration from the ...

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