This volume approaches for the first time the outstanding figure of Javier Prado (1872-1921), professor and later rector of San Marcos, as well as a man of government (chancellor under Pardo, prime minister under Leguía), architect of the delimitation of borders, first in the defense of cultural heritage, academic of the language and promoter of reforms in the 1920 Constitution, among them nothing less than the recognition of the property of peasant communities. Very popular among students and workers, Prado knew how to forge ties with emblematic figures such as González Prada and Ricardo Palma, and based on these consensuses, become a bastion of the movement in defense of free elections.

This volume approaches for the first time the outstanding figure of Javier Prado (1872-1921), professor and later rector of San Marcos, as well as a man of government (chancellor under Pardo, prime minister under Leguía), architect of the delimitation of borders, first in the defense of cultural heritage, academic of the language and promoter of reforms in the 1920 Constitution, among them nothing less than the recognition of the property of peasant communities. Very popular among students and workers, Prado knew how to forge ties with emblematic figures such as González Prada and Ricardo Palma, and based on these consensuses, become a bastion of the movement in defense of free elections.