Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform

Informationen zum Autor Enrique Mayer is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes and Land Use in the Andes: Ecology and Agriculture in the Mantaro Valley of Peru and a coeditor of Andean Kinship and Marriage. Klappentext Uses oral histories to analyze Peruvian agrarian reform carried out by the left-leaning military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado between 1969 and 1999, highlighting struggles to dismantle models of social experimentation after disillusion with the fai Zusammenfassung Reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform process that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xv 1. Agrarian Reforms 1 2. Heroes and Antiheroes 41 3. Landowners 75 4. Managers and Union Leaders 111 5. Machu Asnu Cooperativa 151 6. Veterinarians and Comuneros 183 Conclusion 229 Abbreviations 243 Notes 245 Glossary 275 References 279 Index 291

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Enrique Mayer
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.10.2009
• EAN: 9780822344537
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4453-7
• Seiten: 328
• Serien: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige, Branchen