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This study traces the development of mining in the central highlands of Peru and its intersection with literary, social, and political movements. Silver mining contributed greatly to Peru's economic growth during the colonial period and throughout the nineteenth century, and indigenous peasants provided the majority of seasonal labor to the mines. Peru's defeat in the War of the Pacific resulted ... read morein the beginnings of indigenismo, exemplified by the writings of Manuel Gonzlez Prada. The Cerro de Pasco Corporation, the largest foreign-owned mining operation in the twentieth-century, impacted the indigenous population, internal economy, and environment of the central highlands. Indigenista Dora Mayer provides the most detailed account of company abuses and the reactions and resistance efforts of peasant-miners. Literary and political indigenismo provide the context for the transitioning identities of peasant-miners and the 1928 Morococha mine disaster and its repercussions. Historical patterns of institutionalized inequality are evident throughout this thesis, and mining emerges as the convergence of larger concerns about modernization, race, and imperialism.read less
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