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Article: Muecke, Ulrich: Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru: the Rise of the Partido Civil.(Book Review)
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Muecke, Ulrich Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru: The Rise of the Partido Civil
Trans. Katya Andrusz Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press 320 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8229-42-291 Publication Date: July 2004
This study of the origins of Peru's Partido Civil is a painstaking and pathmarking history of nineteenth-century politics in Latin America. A slightly revised translation of Der Partido Civil in Peru 1871-1879 (1998), Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru: The Rise of the Partido Civil examines how a Lima-based electoral association, in support of presidential candidate Manuel Pardo, evolved into Peru's first modern political ...