The road to the land of the Mother of God : a history of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru /
The Interoceanic Highway is many things to many people, an emblematic project during a period focused on integration, a dream realized for an isolated region, a symbol of the profound fragility of state institutions, a key cause of political corruption and a major driver of ecological and cultural d...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Prologue. The Raid Motociclístico
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Why a History of a Road?
- Chapter 2. Dreams of Gran Paititi and Nightmares for the Newcomers: Madre de Dios before 1890
- Chapter 3. The Rubber Boom and the Many Routes to the Mother of God: Madre de Dios from the 1890s to the 1910s
- Chapter 4. The Old Route and the Future Highway: Madre de Dios from the 1920s to the 1940s
- Chapter 5. Models and Experiences of Development: Madre de Dios from the 1950s to the 1970s
- Chapter 6. The Foundations of the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios in Context in the 1980s and 1990s
- Chapter 7. The Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America and the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios as Ground Zero in the 2000s
- Chapter 8. What Actually Happened: Impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the Late 2000s and Early 2010s
- Chapter 9. The Interoceanic Highway and the Lava Jato Corruption Scandal: The Late 2010s and Beyond
- Chapter 10. Conclusion: The Interoceanic Highway and Integrative Infrastructure History
- Appendix A. The Selection and Management of Sources for an Integrative History of the Interoceanic Highway
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.