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HISTORY. 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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Books of Reference
The official gazette is El Peruana, Lima.
Anario Estadislico del Perú. Annual.—Boletin de Estadistica Peruana. Quarterly.— Demarcatión Política del Perú. (Dirección Nacional de Estadística), Lima
Censo National Poblatión, 4 June 1972. Lima, 1972
Estadística 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 ofCommerce furnish annual studies.
Alba, V., Peru. Boulder, 1977
Bourricaud, F., Pouvoir et Société dans le Pérou contemporain. Paris, 1965
Fitzgerald, E. V. K.., The State and Economic Development: Peru Since 1968. CUP, 1976.
—The Political Economy of Peru 1958–78. CUP, 1979
Hemming, J., The Conquest of the Incas. London, 1970
Lowenthal, A. F., The Peruvian Experiment. Princeton Univ. Press, 1975
Marrett, Sir R., Peru. London, 1969
Mejía Baca, J., and Tauro, A., Diccionário Enciclopédico del Perú. 3 vols. 1966
Philip, G. D. E., The Rise and Fall of the Peruvian Military Radicals, 1968–1976. London, 1978
Pike, A Modern History of Peru. London, 1967
Sharp, D. A. (ed.), US Foreign Policy and Peru. Univ. of Texas Press, 1972
Thorp, R., and Bertram, G., Peru 1890–1977. London, 1978
Vargas, Padre, Historia General del Perú. Lima, 1967
Webb, R. C., Government Policy and the Distribution of Income in Peru, 1963–1973. Harvard Univ. Press, 1977
National Library: Avenida Abancay, Lima.
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Paxton, J. (1982). Peru. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271111_126
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