(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2018) Cuya Sialer, Alejandra
There have been booksellers in Peru since 1543. However, it was only after the 1580s that bookselling as a business formalized, increasing these merchants’ presence in the viceroyalty. This process was propelled by various causes. On the one hand, the viceroyalty had been successfully pacified, and had achieved an administrative order and economic position that made the territory attractive for merchants seeking new commercial ventures. On the other, the dispositions of the Council of Trent and the Third Council of Lima obliged the clergy to possess certain texts, creating an important market in need of books. There also already existed educational institutions and personnel in charge of Peru’s colonial administration, which also needed books from Europe of their own. The purpose of this article is therefore to explain the process of formalization of the bookselling business in Peru between 1580 and 1620. To do so, the cases of three Spanish booksellers who were working in Lima at the time have been studied: Juan Jiménez del Río, Pedro Durango de Espinosa and Andrés de Hornillos.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2018) Pimentel Prieto, Sebastián
This article offers an introduction to the Peruvian philosopher Mariano Iberico Rodríguez’s philosophy of history. First, it situates Iberico within what has been described as the generation of intellectuals that emerged amidst the centenary of Peruvian independence (1920-1924), most of whom came up in the classrooms of the University of San Marcos. Next, it reflects upon the displacement of disciplinary philosophy in Peru, which began to lose its leading role in the intellectual world of Lima in the face of the rise of historical and social sciences in the second or third decade of the twentieth century. It then deals with the metaphysical depth and singularity of Iberico’s theory of history. This explanation includes a comparison with a few schools of history that resonated with Iberico’s posture, such as the «Annales» school of France. Finally, it suggests that Iberico’s philosophical perspective, which takes Henri Bergson’s philosophy as its point of departure, may have been an important influence upon the work of Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Iberico’s student and a maximum referent in the practice of history in Perú.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2018) Bergel, Martín
This article offers a meticulous reconstruction of the La Tribuna newspaper in its first year of existence. From a perspective that addresses both its discursive and material aspects, and in dialogue with recent historiography on the press and printed culture in Latin America, this essay argues that the official newspaper of APRA played a crucial role in the popularization of the party as well as in the very construction of the notion of an «Aprista people» («pueblo aprista»).La Tribuna was a tool that organized and gave visibility to the life of the party. But its initial success was not merely due to the fact of having positioned itself in that role, but also to having effectively coupled itself with the process of the periodical press’s modernization in Peru.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2018) Castro Gutiérrez, Felipe
This paper uses a judicial case to consider the peculiar situation by which a religious order ended up owning the post of assayer of the Royal Mint of Mexico; the policies of the king’s ministers in this regard; and the legal status, rights and forms of retribution of the deputies who actually undertook its labor. Beyond that case’s specific points of contention, the importance of the prestige and honor of an extremely skilled worker in the context of an Ancien Regime society is also discussed.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2018) Peralta Ruiz, Víctor
This article studies the political behavior of the first Peruvian parliamentary parties between the constitutional government of General Juan Antonio Pezet and the Dictatorship of General Mariano Ignacio Prado. I argue that the revolutionary option in 1865 and 1867 was conditioned by the way the government conducted its diplomatic conflict with Spain, in the first case, and by how the dictatorship made use of the political gains of the naval conflict of May 2 1866, in the second. That is to say, unlike other countries involved in the Spanish diplomatic question, international war conditioned the Peruvian political system. In particular, international war becomes an explanatory factor for the main parliamentary parties’ coup intentions, having felt circumstantially excluded by the executive office.
