Through more than five hundred years of the history of Peru’s Interoceanic Highway, this book shows how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of roads change between historical periods, and thus why roads bring many more impacts and costs than their advocates and critics generally anticipate.
Through more than five hundred years of the history of Peru’s Interoceanic Highway, this book shows how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of roads change between historical periods, and thus why roads bring many more impacts and costs than their advocates and critics generally anticipate.
Stephen G. Perz is a professor of sociology at the University of Florida and the author of Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration: Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon. Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado is a professor at Madre de Dios National University and former dean of the Faculty of Ecotourism in Peru.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue: The raid motociclístico Introduction: Why a History of a Road? 1. Dreams of Gran Paititi and Nightmares for the Newcomers: Madre de Dios before 1890 2. The Rubber Boom and the Many Routes to the Mother of God: Madre de Dios from the 1890s to the 1910s 3. The Old Route and the Future Highway: Madre de Dios from the 1920s to the 1940s 4. Models and Experiences of Development: Madre de Dios from the 1950s to the 1970s 5. The Foundations of the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios in Context in the 1980s and 1990s 6. The Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America and the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios as Ground Zero in the 2000s 7. What Actually Happened: Impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the Late 2000s and Early 2010s 8. The Interoceanic Highway and the Lava Jato Corruption Scandal: The Late 2010s and Beyond Conclusion: The Interoceanic Highway and Integrative Infrastructure History Appendix: The Selection and Management of Sources for an Integrative History of the Interoceanic Highway Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue: The raid motociclístico Introduction: Why a History of a Road? 1. Dreams of Gran Paititi and Nightmares for the Newcomers: Madre de Dios before 1890 2. The Rubber Boom and the Many Routes to the Mother of God: Madre de Dios from the 1890s to the 1910s 3. The Old Route and the Future Highway: Madre de Dios from the 1920s to the 1940s 4. Models and Experiences of Development: Madre de Dios from the 1950s to the 1970s 5. The Foundations of the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios in Context in the 1980s and 1990s 6. The Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America and the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios as Ground Zero in the 2000s 7. What Actually Happened: Impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the Late 2000s and Early 2010s 8. The Interoceanic Highway and the Lava Jato Corruption Scandal: The Late 2010s and Beyond Conclusion: The Interoceanic Highway and Integrative Infrastructure History Appendix: The Selection and Management of Sources for an Integrative History of the Interoceanic Highway Notes Bibliography Index
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