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Photographs and brief text introduce the geography, history, government, industries, people, and culture of the fourth largest Latin American country. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Focus on Geography, published by American Geographical Society on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 4416 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The expeditionary eye: reconstructing the first photographs of Machu Picchu, Peru.
Author: Roger Balm
Publication: Focus on Geography (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 47Issue: 4Page: 8(7)

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A fascinating piece of South American history
When the Europeans arrived, every part of America was due for a major conflict of history. "Contested Territory: Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century" delves into the colonial history of Peru as the Spanish conquistadors butt heads with the natives for control on the region and the lasting impression through history that these conflicts left. A fascinating piece of South American history, "Contested Territory" should have a spot in every world history collection.
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Chapters: Milford Haven Waterway. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Geography of Peru -Area:land: 1,280,085.92 km²water: 5,129.68 km² Maritime claims:continental shelf: 200 nmi (370.4 km; 230.2 mi)territorial sea: 200 nmi (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) Land use:arable land: 3%permanent crops: 0%permanent pastures: 21%forests and woodland: 66%other: 10% (1993 est.) Irrigated land: 12,800 km² (1993 est.) Natural hazards: earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, landslides, mild volcanic activity Environment - current issues: deforestation (some the result of illegal logging); overgrazing of the slopes of the coast and sierra leading to soil erosion; desertification; air pollution in Lima; pollution of rivers and coastal waters from municipal and mining wastes Environment - international agreements:party to: Antarctic Treaty, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whalingsigned, but not ratified: Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol Geography - note: shares control of Lake Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake, with Bolivia The combination of tropical latitude, mountain ranges, topography variations and two ocean currents (Humboldt and El Niño) gives Peru a large diversity of climates. The eastern portions of Peru includes the Amazon Basin or selva baja, a region that is larger in the north than in the south. Representing roughly 60% of Peru's national territory, this area includes the Amazon, Marañón, Huallaga and Ucayali Rivers. It is a vast tropical forest with countless rivers and streams. Rainfall varies from 2,000 to 4,000 mm (78.7 to 157.5 in) per year. The Andes shelter the lar...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23432 ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Political Geography, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In this article, we criticize the bipolar polemic on globalization that tends to be limited to arguing over its desirability or destructiveness, and argue that it is necessary to probe deeper into the power relationships that are produced by the restructuring of relationships in time and space. The theoretical debate on politics of scale opens the way to investigate the reconfiguration of scalar organization in capitalism, which has complex and contradictory effects on power relations. It demonstrates that oppositional politics can 'jump scale' by rearticulating issues at larger scales to mobilize leverage. We criticize the debate on 'politics of scale' for leaving several central questions relatively unexplored: what is the actual relation between jumping scale and empowerment, and what type of empowerment are we talking about? With reference to a case study of a mining conflict in Tambogrande, Peru, we discuss the way in which local farmers were able to network with organizations at national and international scales and rearticulate their claims at these scales. The case demonstrates that globalization enabled the opposition narrative to be rescaled. Hence, globalization can be seen as a redistribution of potential for empowerment. The case also shows, however, that rescaling necessitated a rearticulation of political claims to accommodate hegemonic discourses at the national and international scales. ... Read more

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very dissapointed
We purchased this book because our daughter and her husband are adopting a child from Peru and we wanted a picture book for them as a gift.It had very few picutres and alot of info. The book was appropriate for grade school.We returned it.Sue Wilson ... Read more

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Presents the life of a twelve-year-old girl in Lima, Peru, describing her home and school activities and discussing the history, geography, ethnic composition, culture, and other aspects of her country. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Revista Geográfica, published by Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2932 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La complejidad de la ciudad intermedia andina en el Perú hacia un modelo ambiental.
Author: Katarzyna Goluchowska T.
Publication: Revista Geográfica (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia
Issue: 132Page: 5(9)

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This digital document is an article from Revista Geográfica, published by Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6346 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cajamarca: ?Una ciudad mediana sustentable?(Perú)(TT: Cajamarca: a small city sustainable?)(TA: Peru)
Author: (*) Hildegardo Córdova Aguilar
Publication: Revista Geográfica (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia
Page: 111

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 1993. The length of the article is 5775 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The Shining Path insurgency began in Peru in 1980. The strategy emphasized rural revolution, establishment of liberated zones, and encirclement of cities. The counterinsurgent campaign in 1983 prevented the creation of a permanent territorial base in the departments of Ayacucho and Apurimac but led to expansion of insurgent operations northward in the central Andes. In the mid-1980s the insurgents advanced into the rain-forest region of the upper Huallaga Valley and onto the altiplano in the southern Andes. Lima and its surrounding shantytowns were included in insurgent activities by the late 1980s. The insurgents displayed an uncanny ability to maintain their struggle over a vast area and in different natural and social environments.

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Title: Geographical dimensions of the Shining Path insurgency in Peru.
Author: Robert B. Kent
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1993
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v83Issue: n4Page: p441(14)

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a recollection of the author's travels in Peru. The book presents a view of the country's malaise - a juxtaposition of extreme corruption, blighted idealism and resigned fatalism - and an appreciation of its landscapes and people. Tom Pow is the author of "Rough Sea" and "The Moth Trap". ... Read more