Struggle in the Andes : : Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru /

Struggle in the Andes : : Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru / / Howard Handelman.

A massive land-seizure movement first erupted in Peru in 1958 and spread across the Andean highlands in 1963–1964. Several hundred peasant communities in the Peruvian Andes occupied neighboring haciendas in an attempt to retake lands they felt had been stolen from them over the years. Hacienda peasa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Handelman, Howard,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1975
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Peru: A Dual Society
  • 3. The Social Structure of the Traditional Sierra
  • 4. Social Change and the Breakdown of Traditional Society
  • 5. The Peasants Take Their Land
  • 6. The Growth of Peasant Federations
  • 7. Social Correlates of Peasant Mobilization
  • 8. A Theory of Peasant Mobilization
  • 9. The Peasantry and the National Political System
  • 10. Epilogue: The Peasantry Awaits Agrarian Reform
  • Appendix A. Statistical Data
  • Appendix B. Methods of Data Collection
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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