Alberto Vergara – författare

Between 1980 and 1994, Peru endured a bloody internal armed conflict, with some 69,000 people killed in clashes involving two insurgent movements, state forces, and local armed groups. In 2003, a government-sponsored “Truth and Reconciliation Committee” reported that the conflict lasted longer, affected broader swaths of the national territory, and inflicted higher costs in both human and economic terms than any other conflict in Peru’s history. Of those killed, 75 percent were speakers of an indigenous language, and almost 40 percent were among the poorest and most rural members of Peruvian society. These unequal impacts of the violence on the Peruvian people revealed deep and historical disparities within the country.This collection of original essays by leading international experts on Peruvian politics, society, and institutions explores the political and institutional consequences of Peru’s internal armed conflict in the long 1980s. The essays are grouped into sections that cover the conflict itself in historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives; its consequences for Peru’s political institutions; its effects on political parties across the ideological spectrum; and its impact on public opinion and civil society. This research provides the first systematic and nuanced investigation of the extent to which recent and contemporary Peruvian politics, civil society, and institutions have been shaped by the country’s 1980s violence.

Modern Peru: A New History offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day. Delving into a history characterized by instability and a series of interrupted national projects, the contributors examine the legacies of Tupac Amaru’s 1780s rebellion and the intense ideological debates between conservatives and liberals about the newly independent nation. They analyze the mid-nineteenth-century guano state, the catastrophic defeat in the War of the Pacific, and the establishment of an exclusionary oligarchic state - the ‘Aristocratic Republic’ - based on a diverse export economy. Outlining Peru’s twentieth-century transition from a rural, agrarian society to a primarily urban one, the contributors explore the 1968 coup and its unfulfilled promise of top-down social transformation, which was followed by years of democratic rule marked by internal armed conflict and economic mismanagement. This period culminated in the authoritarian neoliberal revolution of Alberto Fujimori, whose economic and political legacies have, in the new century, resulted in a booming economy, now in abeyance, and a deeply dysfunctional democracy. Accessible and wide-ranging, Modern Peru provides a singularly panoramic perspective on Peru’s history. Contributors. Eduardo Dargent, Paulo Drinot, Cynthia McClintock, JosÉ Luis RÉnique, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Alberto Vergara, Charles Walker

Modern Peru: A New History offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day. Delving into a history characterized by instability and a series of interrupted national projects, the contributors examine the legacies of Tupac Amaru’s 1780s rebellion and the intense ideological debates between conservatives and liberals about the newly independent nation. They analyze the mid-nineteenth-century guano state, the catastrophic defeat in the War of the Pacific, and the establishment of an exclusionary oligarchic state - the ‘Aristocratic Republic’ - based on a diverse export economy. Outlining Peru’s twentieth-century transition from a rural, agrarian society to a primarily urban one, the contributors explore the 1968 coup and its unfulfilled promise of top-down social transformation, which was followed by years of democratic rule marked by internal armed conflict and economic mismanagement. This period culminated in the authoritarian neoliberal revolution of Alberto Fujimori, whose economic and political legacies have, in the new century, resulted in a booming economy, now in abeyance, and a deeply dysfunctional democracy. Accessible and wide-ranging, Modern Peru provides a singularly panoramic perspective on Peru’s history.Contributors. Eduardo Dargent, Paulo Drinot, Cynthia McClintock, JosÉ Luis RÉnique, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Alberto Vergara, Charles Walker

Modern Peru: A New History offers a sweeping account of Peru's history from the wars of independence to the present day. Delving into a past characterized by instability and a series of interrupted national projects, the contributors examine the legacies of Tupac Amaru's 1780s rebellion and the intense ideological debates between conservatives and liberals about the newly independent nation. They analyze the mid-nineteenth-century guano state, the catastrophic defeat in the War of the Pacific, and the establishment of an exclusionary oligarchic state-the "e;Aristocratic Republic"e;-based on a diverse export economy. Outlining Peru's twentieth-century transition from a rural, agrarian society to a primarily urban one, the contributors explore the 1968 coup and its unfulfilled promise of top-down social transformation, which was followed by years of democratic rule marked by internal armed conflict and economic mismanagement. This period culminated in the authoritarian neoliberal revolution of Alberto Fujimori, whose economic and political legacies in the new century resulted in a booming economy, now in abeyance, and a deeply dysfunctional democracy. Accessible and wide-ranging, Modern Peru provides a singularly panoramic perspective on Peru's history.Contributors. Eduardo Dargent, Paulo Drinot, Cynthia McClintock, Jose Luis Renique, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Alberto Vergara, Charles Walker

Debates contemporáneos de politólogos sobre la ciencia política peruana. Este libro se encuentra entre los mejores relacionados con la investigación en la subdisciplina de política comparada. Escrito por una talentosa nueva generación de politólogos peruanos, sus artículos engranan seriamente con lo más destacado de la teoría de política comparada, a la vez que ofrecen abundante y novedosa investigación empírica sobre el Perú. La iniciación de la política consigue ubicar al Perú en una perspectiva comparada como ningún otro libro que yo haya leído previamente sobre ese país. Es una referencia obligada no solo para los estudiantes peruanos sino para cualquier estudiante de política comparada en el mundo que busque una mejor comprensión sobre el Perú.

Este libro cumple con un doble objetivo. Primero, se aboca a observar múltiples y recientes transformaciones de la realidad peruana: las instituciones y las políticas públicas, la sociedad y su representación, las distintas caras de la desigualdad. Segundo, los académicos convocados en este volumen plantean sus recientes interpretaciones del país en un lenguaje accesible para la ciudadanía general: un libro académico que procura evitar los academicismos.Aproxímese, lector, al Perú del siglo XXI.