Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Zusatztext

<p> Informed by Eric Wolfs<em>Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century</em>, 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 Wolfs approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolfs political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smiths reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Steve Striffler</strong> is the Director of the Labor Resource Center and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.&#xa0;&#xa0;He writes on labor and the left in Latin America and the United States.&#xa0;&#xa0; His latest book is&#xa0;<em>Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights</em> (2019, Pluto Press).</p>

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