{"product_id":"modernity-at-the-edge-of-david-nugent-9780804729581","title":"Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Indiviual, and the Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935","description":"\u003cp\u003eChallenging 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 analyzes 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. This \"coercive\" view bears virtually no relation to the complex transformations in power, culture, and economy that resulted in the consolidation of national control in the Chachapoyas region.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Chachapoyas, subaltern social groups had long been subject to the abuses of a social order based on principles of aristocratic sovereignty. In the 1920's, these popular forces mobilized around an alternative vision of community that promised to deliver them from their aristocratic overlords--a national community, based on modernity and popular sovereignty. In 1930, the subaltern challenged the elite in an armed uprising, seized control of regional affairs, and established a new form of public culture. Because these newly ascendant popular groups regarded the nation-state as a powerful force for emancipation, they made national values and state institutions an integral part of public culture. In the process, they brought the nation-state into being in Chachapoyas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Nugent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804729581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804729581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.03w x 1.07d","brand":"David Nugent","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906599702783,"sku":"9780804729581","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f89dd106-1c69-455f-a14c-0e4eb5b67325.jpg?v=1748770878","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modernity-at-the-edge-of-david-nugent-9780804729581","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}