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1	The Agrarian Question in South Africa more books like this by Henry Bernstein (Editor) add to wishlist This collection presents a critical political economy of the agrarian question in post-apartheid South Africa, informed by the results of research undertaken since the transition from apartheid started in 1990. The articles cover a variety of topical, theoretical, empirical and policy issues, firmly rooted in an historical perspective. see all copies from $31.85! new only from $45.48! \| SVS
2	Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas more books like this by Aaron Bobrow-Strain add to wishlist "Intimate Enemies" is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, a crucial but almost entirely unexamined actor in the state's violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as 'bad guys' with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain ... see all copies from $12.16! new only from $27.54! \| SVS
3	Political Mobilization of the Venezuelan Peasant more books like this by John Duncan Powell add to wishlist In the first part of this pioneering study, John Duncan Powell traces the formation of a successful alliance between the peasant masses, who sought land reform, and a small urban elite, which desperately needed a political power base. Part II is devoted to an empirical structural-functional analysis of the alliance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $52.50! \| first editions
4	Latin American Land Reforms: A Retrospective Analysis more books like this by Peter Dorner add to wishlist Surveying three decades of land reform efforts in Latin America. Peter Dorner draws upon his experience as both a policy maker and a researcher specializing in land tenure systems. He argues that failures of Latin American land reforms are due to lack of political will and commitment exacerbated by inadequate capital resources. Avoiding polemics, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.83! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America more books like this by Professor Alain De Janvry add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.64! \| SVS
6	Land, Power, and Poverty: Agrarian Transformation and Political Conflict in Central America more books like this by Charles D Brockett add to wishlist Land, Power, and Poverty explores the development of the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society, the challenge in recent decades to those structures by a restive peasantry, and the role in these conflicts of five governments of the regionGuatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The author also assesses ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth more books like this by Jessica Allina-Pisano add to wishlist Why does the introduction of private property rights sometimes result in poverty, rather than development? Most analyses of institutional change emphasize the design of formal institutions, but this study of land privatization in the Russia-Ukraine borderlands shows how informal politics at the local level instead can drive outcomes. Local ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $12.00!
8	Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolas Ailio and the Chilean State, 1906-2001 more books like this by Florencia E Mallon add to wishlist Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile's largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. "Courage Tastes of Blood" helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community - Nicolas Ailio, located in the south of the country - across the entire twentieth century, from its ... see all copies from $14.90! new only from $28.53! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Nicaragua: what difference could a revolution make? : food and farming in the new Nicaragua more books like this by Joseph Collins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Zapata's Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico more books like this by Tom Barry add to wishlist Visions of a modernized and industrialized Mexico competing in the global market clash with the sobering reality of a desperate peasantry and falling agricultural production. The crisis and rebellion in Chiapas is the same one confronting most of Mexico and the Third World. Tom Barry views the crisis that confronts Mexico as alarming evidence of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.77! \| first editions
11	Agricultural Privatization, Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe more books like this by Johan F M Swinnen add to wishlist This collection aims to present a comprehensive study on farm restructuring and its determinants in Central and Eastern Europe. The data collected should provide scholars and policy makers with the necessary information to understand the changes in Central and eastern European agriculture, and presents a comparative analysis of country studies ... see all copies from $59.60!
12	The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania more books like this by Professor Katherine Verdery add to wishlist In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, "The Vanishing Hectare explores the importance of land and land ownership to the people of one Transylvanian community. Aurel ... see all copies from $21.96! new only from $21.96!
13 view cover	Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East more books like this by Mohamad Riad El Ghonemy, M El-Ghonemy add to wishlist Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East explores the causes and consequences of the persistent poverty and extreme inequality that have characterized the region. Using extensive empirical evidence M. Riad El-Ghonemy helps us to understand the impact of co-existing affluence and poverty. In the first part of the book, he investigates the common ... see all copies from $25.48! new only from $53.07!
14 view cover	The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka more books like this by Michael Peter Moore add to wishlist Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than fifty years' history of pluralist democracy and such issues directly affect the ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $33.69! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York more books like this by Thomas Summerhill add to wishlist With an expert blend of political, social, and economic history, "Harvest of Dissent" investigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth century New York to reexamine the nature of Northern farmers embrace of or resistance to the emergence of capitalist market agriculture. Taking the long view, "Harvest of Dissent" brings together the ... see all copies from $14.75! new only from $24.46! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Peasants, Political Economy, and Law: Empire, Identity, and India more books like this by Peter Robb add to wishlist In this collection written over a period of almost two decades, Peter Robb, an important historian of the Empire explores the connections between agrarian policy, revenue, and property law, and commercial production; the emergence of political identities. He investigates issues like economic development, tenancy acts, peasant stratification, ... see all copies from $10.32! new only from $18.26! \| first editions
17 view cover	Cardenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatan more books like this by Ben Fallaw add to wishlist Cardenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico's urban and rural labour in the Yucatan region during the regime of Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-1940. Drawing on archival materials, both official and popular, Fallaw combines narrative, individual case studies, and focused political analysis to re-examine and dispel long-cherished ... see all copies from $13.73! new only from $13.73!
18 view cover	Roots of Rebellion: Land & Hunger in Central America more books like this by Tom Barry add to wishlist An examination of land and hunger in Central America, and the connections that lead from hungry peasants to revolutions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.23! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Curtin's California Land Use and Planning Law more books like this by Daniel J Curtin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $80.00!
20	What Difference Could a Revolution Make?: Food and Farming in the New Nicaragua more books like this by Frances M. Lappe, Nick Allen, Joseph Collins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	An Essay on the Restoration of Property more books like this by Hilaire Belloc add to wishlist This short work is a program for property distribution as an alternative to how it is planned by socialist states or naturally happens in capitalist societies. It is a landmark of European social thought, attempting to rectify the wrongs in both of the major economic theories by approaching the problem from an entirely new angle. The essay is thus ... see all copies from $14.11! new only from $14.11! \| SVS
22 view cover	India: Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction: Agriculture and Rural Development Sector Unit South Asia Region more books like this by World Bank Group (Creator) add to wishlist This report draws on the recent empirical evidence to assess the extent to which land-related insitutions have improved in individual states and the impact of a range of land-related policies to identify areas of action by policymakers to ensure that the opportunities provided by modern technology and the convergence of interests visible in recent ... see all copies from $14.76! new only from $14.76!
23 view cover	After Socialism: Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe more books like this by Ray Abrahams (Editor) add to wishlist Contains papers from a September 1993 workshop on the privatization of agriculture in Eastern Europe, exploring the situation in several countries. Discusses reform policies and actual processes of land reform, the emergence of new family farms, and the creation of new forms of cooperative and joint see all copies from $11.81! new only from $20.32! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Andres Molina Enriquez: Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary Era more books like this by Stanley F Shadle add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
25	Land Reform and Democratic Development more books like this by Roy L Prosterman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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