The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands : : Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940 / / Florencia E. Mallon.

Florencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during the period under discussion, althou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1983
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 743
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps and Appendixes
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Peasants Confront Commerce, 1860-1900
  • One. The Human Geography
  • Two. The Background of Change and Conflict, 1780-1879
  • Three. The War of the Pacific and the Problem of Internal Pacification
  • Part II. The Peasants Confront Industry, 1895-1930
  • Four. The Pierola Years: A National Attempt at Modernization
  • Five. The Penetration of Foreign Capital: The Manufacturing Period
  • Six. The Penetration of Foreign Capital: The Industrial Period
  • Part III. The Peasants Confront Poverty: The 1930s and Beyond
  • Seven. Migration and the Peasant Community
  • Eight. Crisis in the Villages
  • Nine. Peasants Become Farmers: Capitalist Agriculture and the Peasant Entrepreneur
  • Conclusion. Proletarians in a Village Society: The Peasant Community Revisited
  • Appendixes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index