Latin American peasants / edited by Tom Brass.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Veltmeyer, Henry.

Brass, Tom, 1946-

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Series:

Library of peasant studies 0306-6150 ; no. 21.

Library of peasant studies 0306-6150 ; no. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Latin America.

Peasants.

Agricultural laborers.

Latin America.

Agricultural laborers--Latin America.

Latin America--Rural conditions.

Rural conditions.

Land reform--Latin America.

Land reform.

Peasants--Political activity--Latin America.

Peasants--Political activity.

Agricultural laborers--Political activity--Latin America.

Agricultural laborers--Political activity.

Physical Description:

421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR ; London : Frank Cass, 2003.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

0714653845

0714683191

OCLC:

50645562