The Lima reader: history, culture, politics

Pre-Hispanic, conquest, and early Colonial Lima

Pre-Hispanic Lima / César Pacheco Vélez

The foundation of Lima / Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca

The form and greatness of Lima / Bernabé Cobo

Lima's convents / José de la Riva-Aguero

The spiritual diary of an Afro-Peruvian mystic / Ursula de Jesús

Auto-da-fé and processión / Josephe and Francisco Mugaburu

Margarita's wedding dress / Ricardo Palma

Bourbon Lima

Of the inhabitants of Lima / Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa

The 1746 earthquake / Anonymous

A failed Indian uprising / Anonymous

Lima and Cuzco / Concolorcorvo

Slave religion and culture / Hesperióphylo

Faces of all colors / Hipólito Ruiz

Impressions of Lima / Alexander von Humboldt

From independence to the War of the Pacific (1821-1884)

Lima in 1821 / Basil Hall

The passion for bullfighting / William S. W. Ruschenberger

Pancho Fierro / Natalia Majluf

A slave plantation / Flora Tristán

The saddest city / Herman Melville

Lima's carnival and its glories / Manuel Atanasio Fuentes

The Amancaes parade / Ismael Portal

Chinese are not welcome / Mariano Castro Zaldívar

The national library and the Chilean occupation / E. W. Middendorf

Modernizing Lima (1895-1940)

The transformation of Lima after 1895 / José Gálvez

A middle-class house in 1900 / Luis Alberto Sánchez

The growing popular taste for soccer / El Comercio

The Lord of the Miracles procession / José Carlos Mariátegui

Dance in the cemetery / El Tiempo

On the streetcar / Martín Adán

Leguía's Lima / Guillermo Rodríguez Mariátegui

The paperboy / Felipe Pinglo Alva

Daily life of a domestic servant / Laura Miller

Interlude: nostalgia and its discontents

The true Lima / Chabuca Granda

The mislaid nostalgia / Sebastián Salazar Bondy

Of the ugliest cities in the world? / Alberto Flores Galindo

Understanding Huachafería / Mario Vargas Llosa

The many Limas (1940')

Malambo, a black neighborhood / Hugo Marquina Rí́os

The original mansion / Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Diego Ferre and Miraflores / Mario Vargas Llosa

The banquet / Julio Ramón Ribeyro

A Serrano family in Lima / Richard W. Patch

The great march of Villa el Salvador / José María Salcedo

Being young and radical (late 1960s and 1970s) / Maruja Martínez

The day Lima erupted / Enrique Zileri Gibson

A city of outsiders / José Matos Mar

The Israelites of the new universal covenant / Peter Masson

María Elena Moyano / Robin Kirk

The Tarata Street bombing: July 16, 1992 / Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Shining path: a prisoner's testimony / Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Twenty-first-century feudalism / Wilfredo Ardito Vega

Chicha and Huayno: Andean music and culture in Lima / Gisela Cánepa

That sickly applause / 'El cholo Juan'

Life among the pirates / Daniel Alarcón

How food became religion in Peru's capital city / Marco Avilés

Green vultures / Charles F. Walker.