Hatred and Forgiveness in Peru. Sixteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
"Hatred is a central feeling in history. A destructive and rupturing passion oriented toward the elimination — real or symbolic — of the hated object, which even seeks to go beyond its physical destruction to suppress its memory." With this definition we can get a partial idea of what El odio y el perdon en el Peru. Siglos XVI al XXI, published by the Fondo Editorial de la PUCP and compiled and edited by historian Claudia Rosas Lauro, develops in its collected articles and essays. For this book deals not only with hatred and its consequences in different historical and social contexts, but also with hope, conflict resolution, and reconciliation. This bipolarity runs through the history of Peru: the Spanish conquest, the War of the Pacific, the recent history of violence through which our country passed. (Excerpt from the foreword).