The Caudillo of the Andes
The Caudillo of the Andes

Author: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-01-31

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1107377625

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Born in La Paz in 1792, Andrés de Santa Cruz lived through the turbulent times that led to independence across Latin America. He fought to shape the newly established republics, and between 1836 and 1839 he created the Peru-Bolivia Confederation. The epitome of an Andean caudillo, with armed forces at the center of his ideas of governance, he was a state builder whose ambition ensured a strong and well-administered country. But the ultimate failure of the Confederation had long-reaching consequences that still have an impact today. The story of his life introduces students to broader questions of nationality and identity during this turbulent transition from Spanish colonial rule to the founding of Peru and Bolivia.

Coca Prohibition in Peru
Coca Prohibition in Peru

Author: Joseph A. Gagliano

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0816547599

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The first book to provide a historical overview of coca. In tracing the arguments of the participants in the coca debates during the last four centuries, it surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's sociopolitical history, focusing on coca usage as a source of controversy for the policy makers among the coastal elites who have dominated Peruvian politics and economics since the Spanish conquest.