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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
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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
The book has been out and circulating for a couple of weeks. And some friends surprised me sharing pictures of their copies of The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Pictures below– and thanks to those who took the time to send me … Continue reading
Hace aproximadamente diez años, Carlos Aguirre (University of Oregon) y yo aceptamos de manera entusiasta una oferta de Stuart Schwartz para traducir al inglés el libro clásico de Alberto Flores Galindo, Buscando un Inca. Identidad y utopía en los Andes, … Continue reading