Title: Lima; or sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Fuentes, Manuel Atanasio; 1866. 8 . 10480.r.4.
En 1856, Manuel Atanasio Fuentes public un explosivo libelo biogr fico contra Ram n Castilla, el controvertido caudillo militar que asumi la presidencia despu s de la revoluci n liberal de 1854. Combinando ingenio sat rico, an cdotas escandalosas y una prosa mordaz, Fuentes reconstruye sistem ticamente la imagen p blica de Castilla, retrat ndolo como un hombre corrupto, libertino y despiadado: un traidor a los ideales de la rep blica. Con caricaturas que ridiculizaban al "Libertador", este libelo prohibido se convirti en un acto de sedici n verbal y gr fico contra el r gimen.Este libro explora la constante inestabilidad pol tica, el caudillismo, la debilidad institucional y el servilismo de los peruanos ante l deres inmorales. Singular y provocador, el texto revela las complejidades de construir una naci n republicana en una sociedad fragmentada. Una ventana al Per del siglo XIX.
