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Peasants, Entrepreneurs, And Social Change
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Frontier Development In Lowland Bolivia
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, And Social Change
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Frontier Development In Lowland Bolivia
ByLesley Gill
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1987
eBook Published 22 July 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 246
eBook ISBN 9780429301339
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Gill, L. (1987). Peasants, Entrepreneurs, And Social Change: Frontier Development In Lowland Bolivia (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429301339
ABSTRACT
Following the 1952 revolution in Bolivia, both state and international aid agencies channelled capital and technology to regional elites for the development of large-scale cash-crop agriculture in the lowland frontier. In this book, the author examines the contradictory path taken by capitalist development in the region over the last thirty years,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction -- From Latifundia to Agricultural Enterprise -- The Expansion of Capitalist Agriculture -- Frontier Settlement and Proletarianization -- Proletarianization and the Peasant Household -- Settlers Become Entrepreneurs -- Agricultural Cooperatives and Rural Development -- The Agro-Industrial Bourgeoisie, Economic Crisis, and the Cocaine Trade -- Economic Crisis and Social Change in the 1980s -- Conclusion
