(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2014-10-17) Ccahuana Córdova, Jorge Alberto
In the late nineteenth century, Peru began a process of political stabilization, which was based on an alliance between the coastal oligarchy and the Andean gamonales. The latter would retain control of indigenous masses in exchange for enjoying a position of power in Parliament and having jurisdiction, viathe provincial and local governments, over matters of education and health. However, as discussed in this article, in the early twentieth century, a faction of the Partido Civil sought to restore administrative centralization in order to make its educational project more feasible. This new proposal challenged the interests of regional elites, who saw a threat to their positions of power, as well as other factions of the Partido Civil.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2014-10-17) Soberón Mora, Arturo
Folletos and other kinds of printed matter, such as loose sheets or volantes, played a leading role in the emerging political struggles of the nineteenth century. In recent years, interest in studying print culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century has motivated numerous essays in Latin American fields on different aspects of the subject. This article seeks to highlight the transformation which folletos and their contents experienced in the late colonial period and, consequently, the prominent role that these documents had in the intense debate that characterized the political contests of the early decades of independent Mexico.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2014-10-17) Pino-Díaz, Fermín Del
This article examines the Andalusian stage in the life of the author of the Comentarios Reales, as the original context of its creation. This literary context involves both its discursive nature (description of a culturally sufficient scenario, in dialogue with the reader) and its nationalist legitimation (the claim of an identity within the Christian Commonwealth). Such legitimation receives its characteristic mark of Renaissance logic (so common to the European nationalist process, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century), but, more specifically, as a particular process of legitimizing stigmatized societies. In that sense, Andalucía, full of conversos incorporated into the Christian world (in Jewish and morisco minorities who claimed the right of Christian affiliation, recognized above all in the Society of Jesus until 1593) offered an ideal model for revindicating the despised, pre-Christian America (the Incas).
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2014-10-17) Reza, Germán A. De la
This article examines the origins and motivations of the Continental Treaties of 1856, and their differences from the confederative treaties concluded in Panama in 1826 and Lima in 1848. It also seeks to explain the transition from the Bolivarian cooperative approach to a vision based in the balance of powers. As a result of this process, unionism appears as a temporary move, skeptical about its own achievements.