Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PART ONE INDEPENDENCE
- PART TWO THE CARIBBEAN
- PART THREE SPANISH AMERICA AFTER INDEPENDENCE
- 8 Economy and society in post-Independence Spanish America
- 9 Politics, ideology and society in post-Independence Spanish America
- 10 Mexico from Independence to 1867
- 11 Central America from Independence to c. 1870
- 12 Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador: The first half-century of independence
- 13 Peru and Bolivia from Independence to the War of the Pacific
- 14 Chile from Independence to the War of the Pacific
- 15 The River Plate Republics from Independence to the Paraguayan War
- PART FOUR BRAZIL AFTER INDEPENDENCE
- PART FIVE CULTURAL LIFE
- Bibliographical essays
- Index
- References
13 - Peru and Bolivia from Independence to the War of the Pacific
from PART THREE - SPANISH AMERICA AFTER INDEPENDENCE
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PART ONE INDEPENDENCE
- PART TWO THE CARIBBEAN
- PART THREE SPANISH AMERICA AFTER INDEPENDENCE
- 8 Economy and society in post-Independence Spanish America
- 9 Politics, ideology and society in post-Independence Spanish America
- 10 Mexico from Independence to 1867
- 11 Central America from Independence to c. 1870
- 12 Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador: The first half-century of independence
- 13 Peru and Bolivia from Independence to the War of the Pacific
- 14 Chile from Independence to the War of the Pacific
- 15 The River Plate Republics from Independence to the Paraguayan War
- PART FOUR BRAZIL AFTER INDEPENDENCE
- PART FIVE CULTURAL LIFE
- Bibliographical essays
- Index
- References
Summary
Peru and Bolivia, which had shared one history from the remote past until the crisis of the colonial system, had gone their separate ways after independence from Spain. Despite the wars of independence, the political, social and economic order of colonial Peru remained in many respects intact. The social structure of Peru in the period immediately after independence reflected the segmentation of the Peruvian economy. From the early 1840s to the beginning of the war with Chile in 1879 the economic and political evolution of Peru was dependent in one way or another on the exploitation of guano deposits on the coastal islands. The growing use of fertilizers was one of the innovations in English farming techniques which was designed to increase productivity and meet the demands of industrial Britain. The victories of the Chilean army and navy in the War of the Pacific brought to a climax in Peru both the financial and the political crises of the 1870s.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 539 - 582Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985
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