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The Road to the Land of the Mother of God - A History of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru (Hardcover)
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The Road to the Land of the Mother of God - A History of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru (Hardcover)
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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 devastation. This highway
links the Andean highlands with the Amazonian lowlands in southern
Peru, offering an outlet for Brazil’s emergent economy. While it
finally brought an end to the isolation of Madre de Dios and other
parts of southern Peru and the western Amazon, it was made possible
by political corruption revealed in the Lava Jato scandal, and it
permitted the spread of criminal business activities. But the
Interoceanic Highway’s deeper history must be appreciated in
order to fully understand why it was built and the impacts it has
generated. The Road to the Land of the Mother of God explores more
than five hundred years of the history of Peru’s Interoceanic
Highway, showing how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of
roads change fundamentally over time, and thus how roads bring
significantly more impacts and costs than their advocates and
critics generally anticipate. By taking a deeper look at
infrastructure history, Stephen G. Perz and Jorge Luis Castillo
Hurtado portray infrastructure as an integrative optic for
understanding changes in local livelihoods, regional development,
and social conflicts.
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