Book Review: La independencia peruana como representación: Historiografía, conmemoración y escultura pública

As editor Alex Loayza Pérez argues in the book's introduction, the objective of the chapters included in the volume is not to see the independence process as a single event, but to analyse the ideas people have had about the independence process, through the lenses of representation, social memory and the politics of history (Geschichtspolitik) as the book's central themes of analysis. Its goal then is to focus on the narratives that have shaped the memory of Peruvian independence, its diverse representations and historical accounts, and the reasons why different subjects have been included or excluded from those representations.