Land without Masters Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Government

In 1969, Juan Velasco Alvarado’s military government began an ambitious land reform program in Peru, transferring holdings from large estates to peasant cooperatives. Fifty years later this reform remains controversial: critics claim it unjustly expropriated land and ruined the Peruvian economy, whi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cant, Anna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin University of Texas Press 2021, ©2021
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The history of the land question in Peru
  • SINAMOS: promoting the revolution in the regions
  • Education for social change: the making of the campesino citizen
  • The agrarian reform in public discourse
  • The agrarian reform in historical memory
  • Conclusion