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The first major study of prison reform and the prison system in Peru and one of the few social histories of criminals and their world in Latin America.

The essays in this volume explore several fascinating cases of destruction and recovery of archives and libraries and illuminate the ways in which those episodes help shape the writing of historical narratives and the making of collective memories.

Analyses three aspects of the history of the Left and Marxism in Latin America: the need to discuss the "changing times" in the 21 century; the acclimatization of Marxism in Latin America as part of a series of discussions with other intellectual movements; and the construction of certain views on the historical past as a linchpin of the various policy proposals of the left in Latin America.