In its 2003 final report, the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission calculated the number of dead from the violence that raged between 1980 and 2000 at 69,280. Even though this was more than double the figure usually cited, some specialists … Continue reading
Acabo de leer el post de Rafael Dumett (“El día en que triunfó la rebelión de Túpac Amaru II”) sobre dos textos míos y estoy muy agradecido por la buena lectura y los comentarios lúcidos del escritor. Dumett comenta mi … Continue reading
I must admit that I’m particularly excited about the presentation at City Lights. As a kid growing up in Santa Cruz county, a mediocre student but a voracious reader, I would visit the store to feel like a Beat poet. … Continue reading
Emily Berquist (California State University, Long Beach) has written an innovative, important, and lovely book on Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón, who wandered around northern Peru in the eighteenth century. But he wasn’t an idle wanderer–he collected plants; sketched people dancing, farming, … Continue reading
Several people have written me in the last few days to ask what my book has to say about Tupac Amaru’s execution on May 18, 1781, 224 years ago today. I believe I give a full account with some new … Continue reading
Emily Berquist (California Long State University at Long Beach) ha escrito The Bishop’s Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), un libro innovador, importante y agradable sobre el Obispo Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón, quien merodeó por … Continue reading
Entrevista con José Miguel Silva que apareció en El Comercio. José Miguel sabe mucho de historia y de su oficio de periodista. Resaltamos algunos de los temas centrales del libro. Ehttp://elcomercio.pe/luces/libros/editorial-harvard-publica-libro-sobre-tupac-amaru-ii-noticia-1726572 … Continue reading
Conocí al Dr. Maticorena hace unos diez años, en una presentación en la Feria Internacional del Libro en Lima. Se me acercó y se presentó de la forma más humilde. Se sorprendió cuando le dije que conocía muy bien sus … Continue reading
I’m delighted that Alan Taylor has picked up his second Pulitzer Prize, this time for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. As in his other, gulp, six books, he presents his arguments beautifully and convincingly. The research … Continue reading
I’ll be presenting The Tupac Amaru Rebellion in Davis (2), Berkeley, and Seattle. Hope to see some of you and thanks for spreading the word. … Continue reading
