Crossing the Current: Aftermaths of War Along the Huallaga River

by Richard Kernaghan

In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Peru's internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked--despite its former place as the country's main cocaine-producing region. From afar, the Upper Huallaga became a political and legal no-man's-land. Up close, vibrant networks of connection endured despite strict controls on human habitation and movement. This book asks what happens to such a place once prolonged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503603296
• ISBN13: 9781503603295
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"