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Article: Land, Power and Poverty / Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America / States and Social Evolution
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs
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- April 1, 1996
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Charles Brockett. LAND, POWER AND POVERTY. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991. 249 pp.
Robert G. Williams. EXPORT AGRICULTURE AND THE CRISIS IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. 257 pp.
Robert G. Williams. STATES AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 357 pp.
AT the beginning of the 1980s, Central America found itself deeply embroiled in civil strife as long-simmering peasant movements degenerated into open hostility and guerrilla warfare against various governments in the region. Even those governments spared direct challenges were drawn into the crisis by virtue of the mass exodus of refugees from war, who ...