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The Revolutionary Potential of Peasants in Latin America

Author: Gerrit Huizer
Publisher: Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Latin American Peasants

Author: Tom Brass
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135761892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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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.

Peasants, Politics and Revolution

Author: Joel S. Migdal
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400868769
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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During the last quarter century, peasant participation in politics has increased markedly in parts of Latin America and Asia. Why the poor and vulnerable peasant population has chosen to leave the confines of the village for political activity and at times for sustained revolution is the question this book explores. The author draws on informal interviews and observation of peasants in Mexico and India and on fifty-one community studies of peasants in Asia and Latin America compiled by ethnographers in the last forty years. He suggests that severe economic crises have driven peasants to roles in the larger economy outside the village, where they are initially attracted to politics by material incentives. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Violence and the Latin American Revolutionaries

Author: Michael Radu
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412841078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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This volume departs both from approaches to revolution in Latin America that emphasize interests and those that emphasize socioeconomic and political injustice. Rather, it deals with real life, flesh and bone, revolutionary cadres: their thoughts, backgrounds, mentalities, and behavior. Going beyond cliches about Soviet encroachment in Latin America and "injustice breeds revolution," the contributors address the issue of the relationship between leaders and followers in a revolutionary context, seeing revolutionary leaders as the key to articulating and defining the agenda of the "revolution." In contrast to most theorizing, revolutionary leaders almost invariably come from the privileged, even aristocratic classes. The findings raise the issue of how well these leaders actually represent the peoples for which they claim to speak. They also prompt questions about the democratic nature of guerrilla organizations. If the leaders are so far removed, by social background and education, personal experience and ideological articulation, from their followers, how realistic is it to see the Left as a purveyor of progress? Perhaps it is more correct, say the contributors, to see their claims as manipulative tactics directed to resolving a struggle for power among competing elites. The selection of topics ranges from the historical development of revolutionary struggles since Che Guevara (Halperin and Ratliff) to the more specific application and motivation behind them (Ybarra-Rojas and Tismaneanu). Chapters deal with the attempt to define a typology of revolutionary leaders (Radu) and their Western supporters (Hollander). Some authors (Payne, Horowitz) combine .these approaches. Many issues examined in this volume are new, including an analysis of the gap between the internationalist outlook of the leaders and the parochial views of their followers. The violent organizations of the Left in Latin America are shown to be largely the functional result of upper- and middle-class leaders who combine an appeal to the lumpenproletariat at home with support of alienated Westerners to pursue their own elitist agenda.

Peasant Rebellion in Latin America

Author: Gerrit Huizer
Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Study of the political behaviour of rural workers and tenant farmers in Latin America, with particular reference to the evolution of peasant movements and their prospects for effecting social change - includes a bibliography pp. 163 to 173.

Between Underdevelopment and Revolution

Author: Rodolfo Stavenhagen
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 8170171393
Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Latin American Peasant Movements

Author: Henry A. Landsberger
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Essays presented during a seminar on Latin American peasant movements, held at Cornell University, December 8-10, 1966. "Bibliography on Latin American peasant organization [by] Gerrit Huizer and Cynthia N. Hewitt": pages 451-467. Bibliographical footnotes.