fernando iwasaki is a historian, writer, and since 1983 professor in the Department of Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is the author of Nación peruana: entelequia o utopía (1988), Extremo Oriente y Perú en el siglo XVI (1992), Mario Vargas Llosa: entre la libertad y el infierno (1992), and two volumes of short stories: Tres noches de corbata (1987) and A Troya, Helena (1993). Currently he is director of the Cultural Section of the Fundación San Telmo, Seville.
donald ramos is professor of history and of First College at Cleveland State University. His research has focused on the social history of Minas Gerais in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Currently he is completing a social history of gold mining.
david sowell is associate professor of history at Juniata College. He received his doctorate from the University of Florida in 1986. He is the author of The Early Colombian Labor Movement: Artisans and Politics in Bogotá, 1832-1919 and several articles on Colombian social and labor history. He is currently working on a general survey of social violence in Latin America and a study of the social context of power in the Cauca Valley during the nineteenth century.
