Tom Brass (ed.)

Latin American Peasants

Herausgeber: Brass, Tom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 154mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780714653846
• ISBN-10: 0714653845
• Artikelnr.: 21440672

Autorenporträt

Tom Brass

Inhaltsangabe

Latin American peasants - new paradigms for old?, Tom Brass; the peasantry
and the state in Latin America - a troubled past, an uncertain future,
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer; from rubber estate to simple commodity
production - agrarian stuggles in the Northern Bolivian Amazon, Willem
Assies; the impact of neo-liberal economics 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 Andean tradition - the
politics of community and ethnicity in highland Bolivia, John McNeish;
devil pact narratives in rural Central America - class, gender and
resistance, Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas; representing the peasantry?
struggles for/about land in Brazil, Jose de Souza Martins; on which side of
what barricade? subaltern resistance in Latin America and elsewhere, Tom
Brass.