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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 1998
- ISBN
- 9780822320883
- Book Title
- Cochabamba, 1550-1900 : Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 9.8 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Economic History, Industries / Agribusiness, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Latin America / South America, Sociology / Rural
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 277 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822320886
ISBN-13
9780822320883
eBay Product ID (ePID)
614302
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Cochabamba, 1550-1900 : Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, Industries / Agribusiness, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Latin America / South America, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
1998
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
97-029926
Reviews
"[T]he work of a master historian, finding, analyzing, and interpreting archival sources with both discipline and insight."-William Roseberry, from the Foreword, "In light of the important reflections on the book by Roseberry and the author herself, and the quality and relevance of Cochabamba, 1550-1990 , the decision to reissue it is clearly a good one." - Colonial Latin American Historical Review "This book makes it clear that the history of these valleys is unique, with its large forastero , cholo , and mestizo populations, who worked for the haciendas, supplied grain to the silver miners, and evolved into a commercially vibrant, bilingual people with a rich ethnic heritage." - Agriculture and Human Values "[A] magnificent work in social history. In terms of its historical scope, rich detail, and theoretical sophistication, [Larson's] work represents a model for social historians." - Erwin P. Grieshaber, The Americas "[ Cochabamba ] stands as an impressive and theoretically engaging study in historical anthropology and the political economy of colonialism." - Mark T. Berger, Latin American Research Review "In light of the important reflections on the book by Roseberry and the author herself, and the quality and relevance of Cochabamba, 1550-1990 , the decision to reissue it is clearly a good one." - Colonial Latin American Historical Review "Larson's work is a major study in the Latin American field . . . magnificent and original. . . . 'Must' reading for all agrarian and social historians of Latin America."--Steve J. Stern, University of Wisconsin "[T]he work of a master historian, finding, analyzing, and interpreting archival sources with both discipline and insight."--William Roseberry, from the Foreword "[ Cochabamba ] stands as an impressive and theoretically engaging study in historical anthropology and the political economy of colonialism." -- Mark T. Berger Latin American Research Review "[A] magnificent work in social history. In terms of its historical scope, rich detail, and theoretical sophistication, [Larson's] work represents a model for social historians." -- Erwin P. Grieshaber The Americas "In light of the important reflections on the book by Roseberry and the author herself, and the quality and relevance of Cochabamba, 1550-1990 , the decision to reissue it is clearly a good one." -- Colonial Latin American Historical Review "This book makes it clear that the history of these valleys is unique, with its large forastero , cholo , and mestizo populations, who worked for the haciendas, supplied grain to the silver miners, and evolved into a commercially vibrant, bilingual people with a rich ethnic heritage." -- Agriculture and Human Values, "In light of the important reflections on the book by Roseberry and the author herself, and the quality and relevance of Cochabamba, 15501990 , the decision to reissue it is clearly a good one." - Colonial Latin American Historical Review, "Larson's work is a major study in the Latin American field . . . magnificent and original. . . . 'Must' reading for all agrarian and social historians of Latin America."--Steve J. Stern, University of Wisconsin, "In light of the important reflections on the book by Roseberry and the author herself, and the quality and relevance of Cochabamba, 1550-1990 , the decision to reissue it is clearly a good one." - Colonial Latin American Historical Review, "[T]he work of a master historian, finding, analyzing, and interpreting archival sources with both discipline and insight."--William Roseberry, from the Foreword, "Larson's work is a major study in the Latin American field . . . magnificent and original. . . . 'Must' reading for all agrarian and social historians of Latin America."-Steve J. Stern, University of Wisconsin, "[A] magnificent work in social history. In terms of its historical scope, rich detail, and theoretical sophistication, [Larson's] work represents a model for social historians." - Erwin P. Grieshaber, The Americas, "[ Cochabamba ] stands as an impressive and theoretically engaging study in historical anthropology and the political economy of colonialism." - Mark T. Berger, Latin American Research Review, "This book makes it clear that the history of these valleys is unique, with its large forastero , cholo , and mestizo populations, who worked for the haciendas, supplied grain to the silver miners, and evolved into a commercially vibrant, bilingual people with a rich ethnic heritage." - Agriculture and Human Values
Dewey Decimal
305.5/633/098423
Edition Description
Expanded
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Foreword / William Roseberry xiii Preface to the Duke Edition xix Acknowledgments xxiii Abbreviations xxvii Introduction 3 1. Along the Inca Frontier 13 2. The Emergence of a Market Economy 51 3. Declining State Power and the Struggle over Labor 92 4. Andean Village Society 133 5. Haciendas and the Rival Peasant Economy 171 6. The Landowning Class: Hard Times and Windfall Profits 210 7. The Spirit and Limits of Enterprise 242 8. The Ebb Tide of Colonial Rule 270 9. Colonial Legacies and Class Formation 295 10. Cochabamba: (Re)constructing a History 322 Appendix 391 Glossary 401 Archival Material 407 Index 413
Synopsis
Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American Studies 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 caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and economics. Combining economic, social, and ethnohistory, 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. Originally published in 1988, this expanded edition includes a new final chapter that explores the book's implications for understanding the formation of a distinctive peasant political culture in the Cochabamba valleys over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries., A historical and theoretical analysis of the formation of colonial society in the Cochabamba Valleys of Bolivia. A new final chapter reexamines the findings of the original study and situates this regional history in the political/historiographical persp
LC Classification Number
HD1870
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