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By the 1890s the prospects for Peru appeared to be bleak indeed. The country had lost a war and faced a national economic disaster. Within a few years it had shifted from being the wealthiest state in Spanish America in terms of government revenues to the second poorest.1
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Watters, R.F. (1994). Modern Peru, 1895–1968. In: Poverty and Peasantry in Peru’s Southern Andes, 1963–90. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12319-3_5
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