Making Machu Picchu

Mark Rice is assistant professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Making Machu Picchu is a most welcome contribution to historical approaches to tourism development in Latin America. With its lively prose and marvelous detail, this book should be enjoyed by students, researchers, and a wider public, perhaps including many who have themselves undertaken journeys to the famed site that was newly 'discovered' over a century ago."--Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe Rice adeptly shows how shifting dynamics between regional autonomy, national governmental policies and transnational capital shaped the story of the restoration, management and promotion of Machu Picchu. . . . Those with an interest in the social effects of heritage tourism . . . or the history of early twentieth-century geographical and archaeological expeditions or of twentieth-century Peru, among other topics, will find much of value."--Anthropology in Action This engaging book offers sophisticated insights into how local and international forces influenced tourism and nation-state formation in Peru. . . . Essential"--CHOICE A serious academic work about a subject that historians have only recently taken seriously. . . . Offers a well-researched history of tourism and also gives readers many insights into the relationship between pre-Columbian history and Peruvian state-building in the modern era."--H-Net Reviews An authoritative treatment of the not-so-inevitable travails of Machu Picchu's role in the evolution of regional identity. . . . Rice weaves a graceful and coherent narrative of the intellectual and economic forces that eventually thrust Machu Picchu into its unlikely role . . . as a symbol--indeed, the symbol, by the turn of the twenty-first century--of national identity."--American Historical Review Mark Rice's excellent Making Machu Picchu shows how strange this Inca estate's rise has been. . . . Engagingly written and free of jargon, a tight first monograph that. . . . Is not another (tired) story of nationalism's failure in Peru. It is an important book about the hazards of stratified success."--Hispanic American Historical Review