The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Carlos Aguirre is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and the author of
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
Carlos Aguirre is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and the author of
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
Modernizing Lima (1895–1940)
-
Published:April 2017
Lima modernized rapidly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, expanding far beyond the walls that had surrounded the colonial city. Foreign capital poured in, and new mansions and neighborhoods epitomized the changes, which typically followed European aesthetic patterns. Lower-class groups demanded and exercised a larger presence in political and cultural life and in the city itself, and intellectuals such as José Carlos Mariátegui began to question the omnipotence of the upper classes and the closed political system. Many critics noted that modernization had not altered the old forms of hierarchy and domination.
Advertisement
