9781496236319

9781496225870

"The Interoceanic Highway is many things to many people: an emblematic project during a period focused on integration, a dream realized for an isolated region, a symbol of the profound fragility of state institutions, a key cause of political corruption, and a major driver of ecological and cultural devastation. This highway links the Andean highlands with the Amazonian lowlands in southern Peru, offering an outlet for Brazil's emergent economy. While it finally brought an end to the isolation of Madre de Dios and other parts of southern Peru and the western Amazon, it was made possible by political corruption revealed in the Lava Jato scandal, and it permitted the spread of criminal business activities. But the Interoceanic Highway's deeper history must be appreciated in order to fully understand why it was built and the impacts it has generated.The Road to the Land of the Mother of God explores more than five hundred years of the history of Peru's Interoceanic Highway, showing how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of roads change fundamentally over time, and thus how roads bring significantly more impacts and costs than their advocates and critics generally anticipate. By taking a deeper look at infrastructure history, Stephen G. Perz and Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado portray infrastructure as an integrative optic for understanding changes in local livelihoods, regional development, and social conflicts"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Prologue. The Raid Motociclístico

Chapter 1. Introduction: Why a History of a Road?

Chapter 2. Dreams of Gran Paititi and Nightmares for the Newcomers: Madre de Dios before 1890

Chapter 3. The Rubber Boom and the Many Routes to the Mother of God: Madre de Dios from the 1890s to the 1910s

Chapter 4. The Old Route and the Future Highway: Madre de Dios from the 1920s to the 1940s

Chapter 5. Models and Experiences of Development: Madre de Dios from the 1950s to the 1970s

Chapter 6. The Foundations of the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios in Context in the 1980s and 1990s

Chapter 7. The Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America and the Interoceanic Highway: Madre de Dios as Ground Zero in the 2000s

Chapter 8. What Actually Happened: Impacts of the Interoceanic Highway in the Late 2000s and Early 2010s

Chapter 9. The Interoceanic Highway and the Lava Jato Corruption Scandal: The Late 2010s and Beyond

Chapter 10. Conclusion: The Interoceanic Highway and Integrative Infrastructure History

Appendix A. The Selection and Management of Sources for an Integrative History of the Interoceanic Highway

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Bibliography

Index.

Roads > Peru > History.

Roads > Social aspects > Peru.

Peru > Madre de Dios (Department)

Madre de Dios (Peru : Department) > Social conditions.

Corredor Vial Interoceánico Sur > History.

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