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Book SynopsisFlorencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during the period under discussion, although the surviving peasant ideology, village kinship networks,
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Maps and Appendixes, pg. viii*List of Abbreviations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*One. The Human Geography, pg. 15*Two. The Background of Change and Conflict, 1780-1879, pg. 42*Three. The War of the Pacific and the Problem of Internal Pacification, pg. 80*Four. The Pierola Years: A National Attempt at Modernization, pg. 125*Five. The Penetration of Foreign Capital: The Manufacturing Period, pg. 168*Six. The Penetration of Foreign Capital: The Industrial Period, pg. 214*Seven. Migration and the Peasant Community, pg. 247*Eight. Crisis in the Villages, pg. 268*Nine. Peasants Become Farmers: Capitalist Agriculture and the Peasant Entrepreneur, pg. 308*Conclusion. Proletarians in a Village Society: The Peasant Community Revisited, pg. 334*Appendixes, pg. 349*Glossary, pg. 353*Bibliographical Essay, pg. 359*Index, pg. 371
