ABSTRACT
Since its founding in 1535, Lima, Peru—known in the colonial period as the City of Kings (Ciudad de los Reyes)—was a “global” city, a product of the Spanish invasion of the Incan empire. Lima became the seat of the colonial Viceroyalty in South America and was conceived from the start as a center for the political and economic domination of vast colonial territories, including not only the Americas but also Asia. Osorio (2009) describes colonial Lima as,
Founded rather precariously on real and metaphorical sands at a key moment in the history of imperial modernity, Lima would be sustained not by history or religious tradition, but by commerce, the literary imagination, baroque political ritual, and a teaming and diverse population that was in many ways unprecedented in the history of the world.
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