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Title:

Latin American peasants / edited by Tom Brass

Publisher:

Frank Cass,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

421 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Peasantry--Latin America.
Agricultural laborers--Latin America.
Land reform--Latin America.
Peasantry--Latin America--Political activity.
Agricultural laborers--Latin America--Political activity.
Boeren.
Paysannerie--Amérique latine.
Travailleurs agricoles--Amérique latine.
Réforme agraire--Amérique latine.
Paysannerie--Amérique latine--Activité politique.
Travailleurs agricoles--Amérique latine--Activité politique.
Latin America--Rural conditions.
Amérique latine--Conditions rurales.

Other Authors:

Veltmeyer, Henry.
Brass, Tom, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Series:

Library of peasant studies 0306-6150 ; no. 21

ISBN:

9780714683195 (pbk.)
0714683191 (pbk.)
9780714653846 (hardback)
0714653845 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50645562
(OCoLC)52450318

LCCN:

2002015545

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)