History's Peru: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography
"Thurner brings into the canon historians that most readers ignore: Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo, Sebastian Lorente, Jorge Basadre, among many others. The conceptual history of the colonial and postcolonial historicist imagination looks rather different when 'Peru' becomes the focus, for this polity has traditionally stood 'both inside and beyond' Europe. In a tour de force, Thurner provincializes both 'Europe' and Subaltern Studies."--Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, University of Texas-Austin