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Author Rice, Mark, active 2012- author.

Title Making Machu Picchu : the politics of tourism in twentieth-century Peru / Mark Rice
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages)
Series North Carolina scholarship online
North Carolina scholarship online
Contents Making the "modern" destination, 1900-1934 -- Good neighbors, tourism, and nationalism, 1930-1948 -- Disaster destinations, 1948-1960 -- The junta and the jipis, 1960-1975 -- Between Maoists and millionaires, 1975-1996
Summary This text examines the transformation of Machu Picchu from an obscure archaeological site into a global tourist destination and national symbol of Peru. The author illustrates how, from the very start, tourism played a central role in the modern rise of Machu Picchu. The leaders of Cusco, where Machu Picchu is located, employed tourism to argue for the importance of their region at a time when Peru's national leaders believed that the Andean interior offered little cultural and economic opportunities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Tourism -- Peru -- Machu Picchu Site -- History -- 20th century
Tourism -- Political aspects -- Peru -- Machu Picchu Site
International travel -- Peru -- Machu Picchu Site -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
International travel
Tourism
Tourism -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Peru -- Symbolic representation -- History -- 20th century
Subject Peru
Peru -- Machu Picchu Site
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018013222
ISBN 9781469643540
1469643545
9781469643557
1469643553