War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon

by Michael F. Brown and Eduardo Fernández

Book Overview

War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon--told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Ash ninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Ash ninka territory. They fought, and were crushed by, the overwhelming military force of the Peruvian government. Why did the Indians believe this alliance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520074483
• ISBN13: 9780520074484
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"