Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781789205626
ISBN-13 : 178920562X
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Book Synopsis Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America by : Leigh Binford

Download or read book Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America written by Leigh Binford and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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