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Article: Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru.(Review) (book reviews)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- September 22, 1999
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Peloso, Vincent C. Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru Durham, NC: Duke University Press 251 pp., $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-2229-3 cloth ISBN 0-8223-2246-3 paper Publication Date: March 1999
This interesting book might be characterized as microhistory with macro implications. It focuses on the changing social and economic relationships governing the production of cotton in the Pisco Valley, a little-studied area on Peru's south coast. Challenging widely held assumptions about the unqualified dependency of peasants tied to the land, the author, an associate professor of history at Howard ...