Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983

by Stephen G. Bunker

Book Overview

Stephen Bunker challenges the image of peasants as passive victims and argues that coffee growers in the Bugisu District of Uganda, because they own land and may choose which crops to produce, maintain an unusual degree of economic and political independence.

Focusing on peasant struggles for market control over coffee exports in Bugisu from colonial times through the reign and overthrow of Idi Amin, Bunker shows that these freeholding peasants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226080315
• ISBN13: 9780226080314
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"