Screen LibraryMaking Machu Picchu : the politics of tourism in twentieth-century Peru /
Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the "lost city" of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu "is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering." Millions of travelers have since...
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University of North Carolina Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chapel Hill, NC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the "lost city" of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu "is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering." Millions of travelers have since followed Bingham's advice. When Bingham first encountered Machu Picchu, the site was an obscure ruin. Now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Machu Picchu is the focus of Peru's tourism economy. The author's history of Machu Picchu in the twentieth century - from its "discovery" to today's travel boom - reveals |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781469643526 1469643529 9781469643533 1469643537 |
| Index Number: | F3429 |
| CLC: | K977.89-09 |
| Call Number: | K977.89-09/R497 |
| 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. |