Carlos Aguirre is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and the author of The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850–1935, also published by Duke University Press.  Charles F. Walker is Professor of History, Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, and MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in International Human Rights at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath and Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840, both also published by Duke University Press.

"A much-needed overview of the creation of this most important coastal city of the Andes. The Lima Reader presents a series of unpublished or not previously translated primary sources and excerpted literature that reveal the multiplicity of forces that converged to shape this contemporary metropolis. . . . An indispensable resource for the classroom and the road. The Lima Reader could greatly benefit the undergraduate survey class, provide critical information for the upper-level seminar, and be of assistance for the seasoned traveler seeking something much deeper than a generic tour guide." - Javier Puente (Journal of Global South Studies) "Brings together an extraordinarily rich array of original sources.  . . . The editors succeed admirably in selecting the best passages (and photographs) that can be found to represent the rich material and cultural tapestry that unfolds in the City of the Kings over the centuries." - Peter Klarén (Latin American Research Review) "A welcome addition to Duke University Press’s by now well-established and well-regarded Latin American Readers series . . . The editors manage to transmit in periodized, chronological order and kaleidoscopic detail, the city’s beguiling complexity and mystique. . . . An excellent introduction to the city." - Barry Cannon (Bulletin of Latin American Research)

• Acknowledgments  xvIntroduction  1I. Pre-Hispanic, Conquest, and Early Colonial Lima  7II. Bourbon Lima  37III. From Independence to the War of the Pacific (1821–1883)  67IV. Modernizing Lima (1895–1940)  101V. Interlude: Nostalgia and Its Discontents  143VI. The Many Limas (1940–)  161Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing  257Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources  263Index  269