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Florencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during the period under discussion, although the surviving peasant ideology, village kinship networks,

Author Biography

Florencia E. Mallon is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of "The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940" (1983) and the coeditor of "Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor and the Capitalist World-System in Africa and Latin America" (1992).

Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Maps and Appendixes, pg. viii*List of Abbreviations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*One. The Human Geography, pg. 15*Two. The Background of Change and Conflict, 1780-1879, pg. 42*Three. The War of the Pacific and the Problem of Internal Pacification, pg. 80*Four. The Pierola Years: A National Attempt at Modernization, pg. 125*Five. The Penetration of Foreign Capital: The Manufacturing Period, pg. 168*Six. The Penetration of Foreign Capital: The Industrial Period, pg. 214*Seven. Migration and the Peasant Community, pg. 247*Eight. Crisis in the Villages, pg. 268*Nine. Peasants Become Farmers: Capitalist Agriculture and the Peasant Entrepreneur, pg. 308*Conclusion. Proletarians in a Village Society: The Peasant Community Revisited, pg. 334*Appendixes, pg. 349*Glossary, pg. 353*Bibliographical Essay, pg. 359*Index, pg. 371

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Florencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during the period under discussion, although the surviving peasant ideology, village kinship networks, and the communality inspired by economic insecurity have sometimes obscured this division. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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