Inventing Lima: baroque modernity in Peru's south sea metropolis

This study examines certain key elements of the making or inventing of Lima as Peru’ s viceregal capital. Through analysis of seventeenth-century ceremonies of state and local religious rituals, this book asserts that colonial Lima was culturally diverse and its rich population more integrated than historiography would suggest. ÍNDICE: Introduction - Lima in the Historical Imagination - Cities and theConstruction of the Spanish Hapsburg World Empire - A Tale of Two Imperial Cities: Limab s Rivalry with Cuzco to Represent Peru - Making Lima Kingly: RoyalSimulacra, Ritual, and Imperial Rule - Making Lima Courtly: The Viceroy as the Kingb s b Alter Ego,b His Court, and Colonial Rule - Disciplining Lima: The Auto de fe and Colonial Justice and Authority - Making Lima Saintly: Confessionalism and the Making of a Catholic Colonial - Subject - Mapping Limab s Reign: The Work of Ritual, Colonial Paper, and the Archive in Ruling Over the Viceregal Realm - Bourbon Transformations to the Hapsburg Urban World - Epilogue

• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7604-8
• Editorial: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 28/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés