Magnus Mörner’s The Andean Past: Land, Societies, and Conflicts (1985) is a wide-ranging survey of Andean history since conquest, focusing on classic political, social, and economic themes. In his discussion of Andean rural history, Mörner says historians should view the development of haciendas in terms of their wider commercial networks and argues that international export cycles in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, especially in the build-up and aftermath of the wars of independence, played a major role in regional social struggles.

Citation
Mörner, Magnus. The Andean Past: Land, Societies, and Conflicts. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

By N. H. Gill
Quito, 2020