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The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia: Struggles of the National Peasant Association, 1967-1981

By Leon Zamosc

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1986
ISBN
9780521320108, 9780521031387, 9780511558948, 0521320100, 0521031389, 0511558945
LCC
HD1339.C6
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2304561 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Latin American Studies
Pages
320\306
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this book, Leon Zamosc provides an account of the history of ANUC and its struggle on three main fronts: for land, for the defence of the colonists, and for the protection of smallholders. The main focus of the book is on the land struggles. Professor Zamosc adopts a structural perspective, examining the agrarian contradictions that propelled the peasant struggles, the changing relationship between the peasant movement and the state, and the political and ideological content of the peasant challenge. He explores these issues in the light of the shifting patterns of class alignments and antagonisms that marked the rise and decline of peasant radicalism during the 1970s, and offers some suggestions about the significance of ANUC's struggles for the understanding of peasant movements in general.

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