1. The Second Liberation? Military Nationalism and the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of Peruvian Independence, 1821–1971

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Symbols, Icons, and Contested Memories: Cultural Approaches to the Peruvian Revolution
6. 1. The Second Liberation? Military Nationalism and the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of Peruvian Independence, 1821–1971 25
7. 2. The General and His Rebel: Juan Velasco Alvarado and the Reinvention of Túpac Amaru II 49
8. 3. Who Drove the Revolution’s Hearse? The Funeral of Juan Velasco Alvarado 73
9. 4. Remembering Velasco: Contested Memories of the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces 95
10. PART II. Teachers, Peasants, Generals: Military Nationalism and Its Agents
11. 5. Politicizing Education: The 1972 Reform in Peru 123
12. 6. Through Fire and Blood: The Peruvian Peasant Confederation and the Velasco Regime 149
13. 7. Velasco, Nationalist Rhetoric, and Military Culture in Cold War Peru 171
14. 8. Velasco and the Military: The Politics of Decline, 1973–1975 197
15. PART III. Decentering the Revolution: Regional Approaches to Velasco’s Peru
16. 9. Promoting the Revolution: SINAMOS in Three Different Regions of Peru 213
17. 10. Watering the Desert, Feeding the Revolution: Velasco’s Influence on Water Law and Agriculture on Peru’s North-Central Coast (Chavimochic) 241
18. 11. Chimbotazo: The Peruvian Revolution and Labor in Chimbote, 1968–1973 267
19. 12. Generals, Hotels, and Hippies: Velasco-Era Tourism Development and Conflict in Cuzco 295
20. 13. From Repression to Revolution: Velasquismo in Amazonia, 1968–1975 319
21. Notes on the Contributors 337
22. Index 343