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The Republic of Peru, formerly the post important of the Spanish vice-royalties in South America, issued its declaration of independence on 28 July 1821 ; but it was not till after a war, protracted till 1824, that the country gained its actual freedom from Spanish rule.
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The official gazette is El Peruana, Lima.
Anuario Estadietico del Perú. Annnal.—Boletln de Estadistica Peruana. Quarterly.—Demar-cacion Politica del Perú. (Direction National de Estadistica), Lima
Censo National Poblactón, 1940. 9 vols. Lima, 1947–49
Estadistica del Comercio Exterior (Superintendencia de Aduanas). Lima
Banco Central de Reserva. Monthly Bulletin.—Renta National del Perú. Annual, Lima
Ministerio de Fomento Lima puplishes separate annual statistics on the mining and petroleum industries and on general industry ; the wool textile and cotton textile industries, the Peruvian Chamber of Commerce and the National Agrarian Society furnish annual studies.
Basadre, J., History of Peru, 1938.—Peru: problem and reality. Lima, 1936—History of Peruvian Law. Lima, 1938
Balsunde, V. A., La Constitución Inicial del Perú ante el Derecho Internacional. Lima, 1942
Delleptane, Carios. Histaria Militar del Perú. 2 vols. Buenos Aires, 1941
Dennis, W. J., Tacna and Arica : an Account of the Chile-Peru Boundary Dispute and of the Arbitrations by the United States. Yale Univ. Press, 1931
Klinge, G., Politica Agricola Alimenticia en el Perú. 1950
Mendiburu, M. de, Diccionario Histórico-Biográfico del Perú. Rev. ed., with notes by Evaristo San Cristoval, 10 vols. Lima, 1934
Quiñe, A., Peruvian Public Administration. Lima, 1939
Romero, E., Geografia Económica del Perû.—Historia Económica del Perú. Lima, 1949
Torre, Benjamin de la, Perú. Statistical and Economic Review. London 1953
Valega, J., History of Peru. Lima, 1938
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Steinberg, S.H. (1959). Peru. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270886_66
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