Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Leigh Binford is Professor Emeritus of the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He writes on rural social economies, international migration and struggle in Mexico and El Salvador. His recent publications include (with Scott Cook) Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism (2013, University of Texas Press).

Introduction: Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Lesley Gill, Leigh Binford and Steve Striffler



Chapter 1. The Right Hand of the Party: The Role of Peasants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Aaron Kappeler



Chapter 2. Rebellion, Revolution, and Reversal in Ecuador’s Countryside

Steve Striffler



Chapter 3. At the Crossroads of Power

Lesley Gill



Chapter 4. The Catholic Church, Peasants, and Revolution in Northern Morazán, El Salvador

Leigh Binford



Chapter 5. Peasants, Crime, and War in Rural Mexico

Casey Walsh



Chapter 6. Peasant Wars in Brazil

Cliff Welch



Chapter 7. Forgetting Peasants: History, “Indigeneity,” and the Anthropology of Revolution in Bolivia

Forrest Hylton



Afterword: Reflection: Reading Eric Wolf as a Public Intellectual Today

Gavin Smith



Index