Fifty years of peasant wars in Latin America / edited by Leigh Binford, Lesley Gill, and Steve Striffler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Binford, Leigh, 1948- editor.

Gill, Lesley, editor.

Striffler, Steve, 1967- editor.

Series:

Dislocations ; Volume 28.

Dislocations ; Volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasant uprisings--Latin America--Case studies.

Peasant uprisings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2020]

Summary:

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smith’s reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Chapter 1 — The Right Hand of the Party: The Role of Peasants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Chapter 2 — Rebellion, Revolution, and Reversal in Ecuador’s Countryside

Chapter 3 — At the Crossroads of Power

Chapter 4 — The Catholic Church, Peasants, and Revolution in Northern Morazán, El Salvador

Chapter 5 — Peasants, Crime, and War in Rural Mexico

Chapter 6 — Peasant Wars in Brazil

Chapter 7 — Forgetting Peasants: History, “Indigeneity,” and the Anthropology of Revolution in Bolivia

Afterword: Reading Eric Wolf as a Public Intellectual Today

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78920-562-X

OCLC:

1347247372