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Article: Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru.(Review)
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- September 22, 2000
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Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru. By Vincent C. Peloso. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 251. $17.95.)
This book is a detailed historical analysis of the social and economic world of Peruvian cotton plantations from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s. Using archival material from some haciendas of the Pisco Valley (located south of Lima), the author concentrates on changing relationships between different social players of this plantation environment. He is most interested in such issues as recruitment of labor, labor relations, and patterns of resistance, and he uses ...
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Article: CHILE, PERU FIGHT OVER BRAGGING RIGHTS OF PISCO LIQUOR
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November 15, 1998 ;
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... ... take what is ours again," said Isabel Alvarez, a restaurant owner in Lima. Pisco was first produced in Peru's southern Pisco valley as far back as the 16th century, made from grapes brought by the Spanish conquerors, Peruvians argue. The word "pisco ...
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