Peasants Against the State (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1991
First published:	June 1991
Authors:	Stephen G. Bunker
Dimensions:	229 x 154 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	302
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-08031-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries
LSN:	0-226-08031-5
Barcode:	9780226080314

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