Cochabamba, 1550-1900 : colonialism and agrarian transformation in Bolivia / Brooke Larson ; with a new foreword by William Roseberry.

Author
Larson, Brooke [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Expanded ed.
Published/​Created
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Description
xxvii, 422 pages : maps ; 23 cm

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    Summary note
    This study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns and villages, peasant markets and migratory networks, all caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and economics. Combining ethnohistory and economic and social history, Brooke Larson shows how the contradictions of class and colonialism eventually gave rise to new peasant, artisan, and laboring groups that challenged the evolving structures of colonial domination. This expanded edition includes a new final chapter that explores the book's implications for understanding the formation of a distinctive peasant and political culture in the Cochabamba valleys over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. -- From publisher's description.
    Notes
    First ed. has title: Colonialism and agrarian transformation in Bolivia.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Along the Inca Frontier
    • The Emergence of a Market Economy
    • Declining State Power and the Struggle over Labor
    • Andean Village Society
    • Haciendas and the Rival Peasant Economy
    • The Landowning Class : Hard Times and Windfall Profits
    • The Spirit and Limits of Enterprise
    • The Ebb Tide of Colonial Rule
    • Colonial Legacies and Class Formation
    • Cochabamba: (Re)constructing a History.
    ISBN
    • 0822320614 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780822320616 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0822320886 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780822320883 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    97029926
    OCLC
    37315403
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