THE FOUNDING ABYSS OF COLONIAL HISTORY: OR “THE ORIGIN AND PRINCIPLE OF THE NAME OF PERU”.

The name of “Peru” and the entities and beings it names first appeared “in an abyss of history” on “the edge of the world” in the early 1500s. In this essay I ask what hermeneutical truths or meanings the strange event that made the name of Peru both famous and historical holds for—and withholds fro...

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Published in:	History & Theory Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 44 - 63
Main Author:	THURNER, MARK
Format:	Essay
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Feb2009
Subjects:	Essays Geographic names Imperialism Historiography Postcolonialism Peru
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