Guerra do Pacífico: a história de uma derrota
The Pacific War (1879-1884) was a war conflict that involved Chile, Peru and Bolivia. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the consequences of this confrontation for the Peruvian state. To this end, we analyzed two historical sources that were produced by intellectuals who took up arms and f...
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Universidade de São Paulo - Programa de Pós-graduação em Integração da América Latina
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/prolam/article/view/161550 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-047&d=article161550oai |
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| Sumario: | The Pacific War (1879-1884) was a war conflict that involved Chile, Peru and Bolivia. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the consequences of this confrontation for the Peruvian state. To this end, we analyzed two historical sources that were produced by intellectuals who took up arms and fought in battles: Cartas a Piérola sobre la ocupación chilena de Lima (between 1880 and 1889), by Ricardo Palma and Discurso en el Politeama (1888), by Manuel González Prada. The first alleged that the reason for Peru's failure in the war against the chileans was because the country had a massively indigenous population, considered inferior and worthless; whereas the second stated that the reason for the war fiasco was precisely because the Indians were subordinated and treated as servants, not as citizens of the Peruvian Republic. This paper reflects on these two distinct perspectives and demonstrates how important the indigenous issue was, in the context of the late nineteenth century, to discuss the reasons for Peru's defeat in the Pacific War. |
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