| Regional Markets and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia: Cochabamba, 1539-1960 Contributor(s): Jackson, Robert H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 082631533X ISBN-13: 9780826315335 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Latin America - South America - Social Science | Sociology - Rural |
| Dewey: 306.349 |
| LCCN: 94018693 |
| Lexile Measure: 1690 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 294 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a groundbreaking volume, Professor Jackson seeks to discover when and how modernity supplanted the colonial era in Bolivia. The rural economy, structure of land tenure, and hacienda labor arrangements in the Andean region are carefully delineated through a case study of Cochabamba, a key region in the central valley of Bolivia, to trace changes in patterns present since the sixteenth century. Between 1840 and 1930, shifts in regional markets and changes in government policies resulted in hacienda owners earning less and incurring greater debt, which inevitably led to the insolvency of many hacienda owners resale of colonial-era estates, and an increase in the number of peasant landowners. These changes, in turn, set in motion events leading to the 1953 agrarian reform movement. An ambitious book that will contribute to our re-thinking of Andean economic history, of dependency theory, and of ethnohistory.--Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego |
Contributor Bio(s): Jackson, Robert H.: - Robert H. Jackson, an independent historian, resides in Spring, Texas. He is widely published in the history of colonial Latin America and the borderlands. |