Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

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.

About the author

Leigh Binford is Professor Emeritus of the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He writes on rural social economies, international migration and struggle in Mexico and El Salvador. His recent publications include (with Scott Cook) Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism (2013, University of Texas Press).

Lesley Gill teaches anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of A Century of Violence in a Red City (2016, Duke University Press) and The School of the Americas (2004, Duke University Press).

Steve Striffler is the Director of the Labor Resource Center and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.  He writes on labor and the left in Latin America and the United States.   His latest book is Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights (2019, Pluto Press).

Product details

• Authors: Leigh Gill Binford
• Assisted by: Leigh Binford (Editor), Lesley Gill (Editor), Steve Striffler (Editor), Striffler Steve (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2023
• EAN: 9781800739246
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-924-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Dislocations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Revolutionary groups & movements, Social and cultural anthropology, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, Revolutionary groups and movements, Political and Economic Anthropology; Anthropology (General)