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

Bunker

 
9780226080314: Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226080315 ISBN 13: 9780226080314
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

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 acted collectively and used the state's dependence on coffee export revenues to effectively influence and veto government programs inimical to their interests.

Bunker's work vividly portrays the small victories and great trials of ordinary people struggling to control their own economic destiny while resisting the power of the world economy.

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About the Author

Stephen G. Bunker's works include Underdeveloping the Amazon, published by the University of Chicago Press.

From the Back Cover

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.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226080315
ISBN 13 
9780226080314
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
302