Auteur: Walker Charles F. Walker

The largest rebellion in the history of Spain’s American empire-a conflict greater in territory and costlier in lives than the contemporaneous American Revolution-began as a local revolt against …

Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru’s capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that …

In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the …

Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s …

When Peruvian public intellectual Jose Carlos Aguero was a child, the government imprisoned and executed his parents, who were members of Shining Path. In The Surrendered-originally published in …