Environment, Society and Rural Change in Latin America: The Past, Present and Future in the Countryside - Tapa dura

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Essays examine various topics of immediate importance to rural Latin America: colonization of new land; land reform; social change and ethnicity; rural emigration; and penetration of farming by external interests. First-hand experience in different disciplines of the social sciences and different cultural sectors of Latin America are applied to these issues by resident and former-resident authors with a direct concern for the area.