Title: Modernity at the edge of empire
First published: 1997
Description: Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states - how they form, what sustains them, why they fail - this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyses the emergence of the modern nation-state 'from below.' By approaching nation-state formation from the perspective of the subaltern, the book offers a critique of scholarship that sees coercion and the imposition of social and cultural forms as the core of nation-state expansion. Based on extensive interviews with subaltern political activists and a detailed study of a previously neglected documentary record, the book offers a compelling new perspective on the drive toward modernity, the formation of the nation-state, and the participation of subaltern groups in these processes.--Publisher description.
Subjects: Case studies, Politics and government, National state, Social conditions, History, Nationalism, Nation-state, Nationalism, latin america, Peru, social conditions, Peru, politics and government
Places: Chachapoyas (Peru : Province), Peru, Chachapoyas (Province)
LC classification: JC311 .N838 1997