"This is a valuable study that addresses issues of race, class, and sociability. . . . Recommended."—Choice Magazine
"( Crafting the Republic) makes an important, necessary, and highly original contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century Peru."—Journal of Latin American Studies
"García-Bryce's book is the best political history of artisans in nineteenth-century Peru. It tells more about Peruvian political culture than about social or economic history."—Hispanic American Historical Review