Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875-1933

by Michael J. Gonzales

Book Overview

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the social, economic, and political landscape of Peru was transformed profoundly. Within a decade of the country's disastrous defeat by Chile during the War of the Pacific, the export economy was recovering on the strength of a variety of agricultural and mineral products. The sugar industry played a pivotal role in this process and produced wealthy and socially ambitious families who became...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477306005
• ISBN13: 9781477306000
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"