Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America / / ed. by Leigh Binford, Steve Striffler, Lesley Gill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Binford, Leigh,; Gill, Lesley,; Hylton, Forrest,; Kappeler, Aaron,; Smith, Gavin,; Striffler, Steve,; Walsh, Casey,; Welch, Cliff,
• HerausgeberIn: Binford, Leigh,; Gill, Lesley,; Striffler, Steve,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America -- Chapter 1 — The Right Hand of the Party: The Role of Peasants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution -- Chapter 2 — Rebellion, Revolution, and Reversal in Ecuador’s Countryside -- Chapter 3 — At the Crossroads of Power -- Chapter 4 — The Catholic Church, Peasants, and Revolution in Northern Morazán, El Salvador -- Chapter 5 — Peasants, Crime, and War in Rural Mexico -- Chapter 6 — Peasant Wars in Brazil -- Chapter 7 — Forgetting Peasants: History, “Indigeneity,” and the Anthropology of Revolution in Bolivia -- Afterword: Reading Eric Wolf as a Public Intellectual Today -- Index