Peasants, Entrepreneurs, And Social Change

Frontier Development In Lowland Bolivia

AvLesley Gill

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Following the 1952 revolution in Bolivia, both state and international aid agencies channelled capital and technology to regional elites for the development of large-scale cash-crop agriculture in the lowland frontier. In this book, the author examines the contradictory path taken by capitalist development in the region over the last thirty years,

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-19
Mått:148 x 232 x undefined mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367298043

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Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lesley Gill received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. She was a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia in 1984-1985 and is currently affiliated with the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in La Paz, Bolivia.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction -- From Latifundia to Agricultural Enterprise -- The Expansion of Capitalist Agriculture -- Frontier Settlement and Proletarianization -- Proletarianization and the Peasant Household -- Settlers Become Entrepreneurs -- Agricultural Cooperatives and Rural Development -- The Agro-Industrial Bourgeoisie, Economic Crisis, and the Cocaine Trade -- Economic Crisis and Social Change in the 1980s -- Conclusion