Wagering the Land / Martin W. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Martin W., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.) : 1 frontisp: Map.1

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Food, fuel, and fiber: human environmental relations in prewar buguias

3. Social relations: power and labor

4. Religion: the role of the ancestors

5. Commercial and political relations

Interregnum: The war

6. The establishment of commercial vegetable agriculture

7. The sociology and economics of vegetable production, 1946-1972

8. Economic and ecological crisis

9. Social conflict and political struggle

10. Religion in modem buguias

11. Conclusion: understanding buguias's aberrant development

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520328006

0520328000

OCLC:

1202623557