Making Machu Picchu
The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru
By Mark Rice
252 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4353-3
Published: October 2018 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-4352-6
Published: October 2018 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-4354-0
Published: August 2018
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Rice shows how the growth of tourism at Machu Picchu swayed Peruvian leaders to celebrate Andean culture as compatible with their vision of a modernizing nation. Encompassing debates about nationalism, Indigenous peoples' experiences, and cultural policy—as well as development and globalization—the book explores the contradictions and ironies of Machu Picchu's transformation. On a broader level, it calls attention to the importance of tourism in the creation of national identity in Peru and Latin America as a whole.
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Mark Rice is assistant professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York.
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“A serious academic work about a subject that historians have only recently taken seriously. . . . Offers a well-researched history of tourism and also gives readers many insights into the relationship between pre-Columbian history and Peruvian state-building in the modern era.”--H-Net Reviews
“This engaging book offers sophisticated insights into how local and international forces influenced tourism and nation-state formation in Peru. . . . Essential”--Choice Reviews
“Making Machu Picchu is a most welcome contribution to historical approaches to tourism development in Latin America. With its lively prose and marvelous detail, this book should be enjoyed by students, researchers, and a wider public, perhaps including many who have themselves undertaken journeys to the famed site that was newly “discovered” over a century ago.”--E.I.A.L (Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe)
“Not only the first serious treatment of Machu Picchu’s central role in the development of tourism in Peru, this book also brilliantly explores the importance of tourism and Machu Picchu to Peru's self-fashioning as a nation directly descended from the ‘great civilization’ of the Incas. Making Machu Picchu is a welcome and essential contribution to a broader effort to complete the puzzle of Peru’s modern history.”—Paulo Drinot, University College London