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Making Machu Picchu : the politics of tourism in twentieth-century Peru
- Title
- Making Machu Picchu : the politics of tourism in twentieth-century Peru / Mark Rice.
- Author
- Rice, Mark, active 2012-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 233 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the "lost city" of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu "is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering." Millions of travelers have since followed Bingham's advice. when Bingham first encountered Machu Picchu, the site was an obscure ruin. Now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Machu Picchu is the focus of Peru's tourism economy. The author's history of Machu Picchu in the twentieth century - from its "discovery" to today's travel boom - reveals how Machu Picchu was transformed into both a global travel destination and a powerful symbol of the Peruvian nation. Te author shows how the growth of tourism at Machu Picchu swayed Peruvian leaders to celebrate Andean culture and compatible with their vision of a modernizing nation. Encompassing debates about nationalism, Indigenous peoples' experiences, and cultural policy - as well as development and globalization - the book explores the contradictions and ironies of Machu Picchu's transformation. On a broader level, it calls attention to the importance of tourism in the creation of national identity in Peru and Latin America as a whole.
- Subjects
- International travel
- Tourism
- Peru
- Tourism > Political aspects
- International travel > Peru > Machu Picchu Site > History > 20th century
- Peru > Symbolic representation > History > 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Peru > Machu Picchu Site
- Tourism > Political aspects > Peru > Machu Picchu Site
- History
- Tourism > Peru > Machu Picchu Site > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Making the "modern" destination, 1900-1934 -- Good neighbors, tourism, and nationalism, 1930-1948 -- Disaster destinations, 1948-1960 -- The junta and the jipis, 1960-1975 -- Between Maoists and millionaires, 1975-1996.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9546
- ISBN
- 9781469643526
- 1469643529
- 9781469643533
- 1469643537
- LCCN
- 2018013222
- OCLC
- 1029482079
- Author
- Rice, Mark, active 2012- author.
- Title
- Making Machu Picchu : the politics of tourism in twentieth-century Peru / Mark Rice.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9546