{"product_id":"modernity-at-the-edge-of-empire-state-indiviual-and-nation-in-the-northern-peruvian-andes-1885-1935-9780804727822","title":"Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Indiviual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes,1885-1935","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Nugent\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging much received wisdom about nation-states--how they form, what sustains them, why they fail--this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of the modern nation-state \"from below.\" By approaching nation-state formation from the perspective of the subaltern, the book offers a critique of scholarship that sees coercion and the imposition of social and cultural forms as the core of nation-state expansion. This \"coercive\" view bears virtually no relation to the complex transformations in power, culture, and economy that resulted in the consolidation of national control in the Chachapoyas region.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Chachapoyas, subaltern social groups had long been subject to the abuses of a social order based on principles of aristocratic sovereignty. In the 1920's, these popular forces mobilized around an alternative vision of community that promised to deliver them from their aristocratic overlords--a national community, based on modernity and popular sovereignty. In 1930, the subaltern challenged the elite in an armed uprising, seized control of regional affairs, and established a new form of public culture. Because these newly ascendant popular groups regarded the nation-state as a powerful force for emancipation, they made national values and state institutions an integral part of public culture. In the process, they brought the nation-state into being in Chachapoyas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47614700257431,"sku":"9780804727822","price":16318.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804727822.webp?v=1775095638","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/modernity-at-the-edge-of-empire-state-indiviual-and-nation-in-the-northern-peruvian-andes-1885-1935-9780804727822","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}