Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

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).

“Highly recommended.” • Choice“This stimulating book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including those who want an accessible, well-written guide to peasant struggles and agrarian change in Latin America…. In a world of escalating inequality, precarity, and violence, such an approach to intellectual labour is more urgent than ever.” • Journal of Agrarian Change“The book is quite unique… The concept is original and intriguing, and brings together an outstanding array of scholars to pursue the questions Eric Wolf raised in different Latin American cases.” • Avi Chomsky, Salem State University.

• Introduction: Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin AmericaLesley Gill, Leigh Binford and Steve StrifflerChapter 1. The Right Hand of the Party: The Role of Peasants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian RevolutionAaron KappelerChapter 2. Rebellion, Revolution, and Reversal in Ecuador’s CountrysideSteve StrifflerChapter 3. At the Crossroads of PowerLesley GillChapter 4. The Catholic Church, Peasants, and Revolution in Northern Morazán, El SalvadorLeigh BinfordChapter 5. Peasants, Crime, and War in Rural MexicoCasey WalshChapter 6. Peasant Wars in BrazilCliff WelchChapter 7. Forgetting Peasants: History, “Indigeneity,” and the Anthropology of Revolution in BoliviaForrest HyltonAfterword: Reflection: Reading Eric Wolf as a Public Intellectual TodayGavin SmithIndex