Latin American peasants / edited by Tom Brass.

Other author Veltmeyer, Henry.
Other author Brass, Tom, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Portland, OR ; London : Frank Cass, 2003.
Description421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Peasants--Latin America.
Agricultural laborers--Latin America.
Land reform--Latin America.
Peasants--Latin America. --Political activity.
Agricultural laborers--Latin America. --Political activity.
Latin America--Rural conditions.

SeriesLibrary of peasant studies ; no. 21, 0306-6150 ;
Library of peasant studies no. 21. ^A686643
Contents A troubled past, an uncertain future / Henry Veltmeyer -- From rubber estate to simple commodity production : agrarian struggles in the northern Bolivian Amazon / William Assies -- The impact of neoliberal economies on Peruvian peasant agriculture in the 1990s / John Crabtree -- Whither o campesinato? : historical peasantries of Brazilian Amazonia / Stephen Nugent -- From dependency to reform and back again : the Chilean peasantry during the Twentieth Century / Warwick E. Murray -- Globalization and the reinvention of Amazonian tradition : the politics of community and ethnicity in Highland Bolivia / John McNeish -- Devil pact narratives in rural Central America / Kees Jansen -- Class, gender and "resistance" / Esther Roquas -- Representing Peasants? : struggles for/about land in Brazil / Souza Martins -- On which side of what barricade? : subaltern resistance in Latin America and elsewhere / Tom Brass.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2002015545
ISBN0714653845 (hardback)
ISBN0714683191 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HD1531.L3 L37 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold