An examination of the central spatial tendencies of capitalist development and state-society relations in Peru for the 1914-84 period. Although the study focuses on the Peruvian experience, this book also considers the effects of the changing internationalization of capital.

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Part 1 Peripheral capitalism and the organization of space: fundamental issues in the development of regional analysis; waves of internationalization and their impact on peripheral societies. Part 2 Society, state and territory - Peru 1919-1984: emerging modalities of the regional question - Peru 1919-1940; capitalist development and the urbanization process - Peru 1940-1968; state power and territorial centralization - Peru 1968-1980; towards the territorial generalization of crisis - Peru 1980-1984. Part 3 Conclusions: zones of the peripheral state.