Research Catalog

Title

Plantation agriculture and social control in northern Peru, 1875-1933 / by Michael J. Gonzales.

Author

Gonzales, Michael J., 1946-

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1985.

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Details

Description

ix, 235 pages : maps; 24 cm

Series Statement

Latin American monographs ; no 62

Uniform Title

Latin American monographs (University of Texas at Austin. Institute of Latin American Studies) ; no. 62.

Subject

• Sugar trade > Peru > History
• Sugar workers > Peru > History
• Plantations > Peru > History
• Social control
• Social Control, Formal
• 15.85 history of America
• Plantations
• Social control
• Sugar trade
• Sugar workers
• Soziale Kontrolle
• Zuckerindustrie
• Zuckerrohr
• Plantage-economie
• Sociale controle
• Peru
• Peru > Nord

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [196]-229.

Contents

Introduction: modern Peru, plantation agriculture, and social control -- Part I. The development of the sugar industry -- The physical and historical setting -- Planters and capital, 1860-1933 -- Land and technology, 1860-1933 -- Part II. The organization, recruitment, and control of labor -- The organization of labor at Cayalti -- The Chinese worker, 1875-1900 -- Culture and social control, 1865-1905 -- Labor contracting, 1880-1933 -- The plantation community, 1890-1933 -- Confrontation -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 029276491X
• 9780292764910

LCCN

84002359

OCLC

• ocm10404550
• 10404550
• SCSB-616644

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library