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CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT. The Republic of Peru, formerly the most important of the Spanish vice-royalties in South America, declared its independence on 28 July 1821; but it was not till after a war, protracted till 1824, that the country gained its actual freedom.
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The official gazette is El Peruana, Lima.
Anuario Estadístico del Perú. Annual.—Boletín de Estadistica Peruana. Quarterly.—Dtmar-cación Politica del Perú. (Dirección Nacional de Estadistica), Lima
Censo Nacional Población, 1940. 9 vols. Lima, 1947–49
Estadistica del Comercio Exterior (Superintendencia de Aduanas). Lima
Banco Central de Reserva. Monthly Bulletin.—Renia Nacional del Perú. Annual, Lima
Ministerio de Fomento Lima publishes 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
Belaúnde, V. A., La Constitución Initial del Perú ante el Derecho Internacional. Lima, 1942
Dellepiane, Carlos, Historia 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 Agrícola Alimenticia en el Perú. 1950
Mendiburu, M. de, Diccionario Histórico-Biográfico del Perú. Rev. ed., with notes by Evaristo San Oristoval, 10 vols. Lima, 1934
Quiñe, A., Peruvian Public Administration. Lima, 1939
Romero, E., Geografía Económica del Perú.—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. (1961). Peru. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270909_68
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