Latin American peasants
By: edited by Tom Brass
Contributors: Veltmeyer, Henry; Brass, Tom, 1946-
Series: Library of peasant studies -- no. 21
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Peasantry -- Latin America; Agricultural laborers -- Latin America; Land reform -- Latin America; Peasantry -- Latin America -- Political activity; Agricultural laborers -- Latin America -- Political activity; Latin America -- Rural conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: A troubled past, an uncertain future / Henry Veltmeyer; title: From rubber estate to simple commodity production : agrarian struggles in the northern Bolivian Amazon / William Assies; title: The impact of neoliberal economies on Peruvian peasant agriculture in the 1990s / John Crabtree; title: Whither o campesinato? : historical peasantries of Brazilian Amazonia / Stephen Nugent; title: From dependency to reform and back again : the Chilean peasantry during the Twentieth Century / Warwick E. Murray; title: Globalization and the reinvention of Amazonian tradition : the politics of community and ethnicity in Highland Bolivia / John McNeish; title: Devil pact narratives in rural Central America / Kees Jansen; title: Class, gender and "resistance" / Esther Roquas; title: Representing Peasants? : struggles for/about land in Brazil / Souza Martins; title: On which side of what barricade? : subaltern resistance in Latin America and elsewhere / Tom Brass