Miners, Peasants and Entrepreneurs: Regional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 48) - Hardcover

Long, Norman; Roberts, Bryan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521248094 ISBN 13: 9780521248099

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Synopsis

This volume traces the development of the central highlands, one of Peru's major mining regions. It draws on extensive fieldwork carried out in Peru between 1970 and 1982, spanning a reforming military government, reaction and a return to civilian politics under Belaunde. Through historical material combined with field studies of villages and of the major town of the region, Huancayo, the book examines the economic and cultural processes underlying the 'progressive' reputation of the region in Peru and in the literature on development. Since the major enterprise of the region, the Cerro de Pasco Mining Corporation, was, until the 1970s, foreign owned, a persisting theme is the type of economic growth associated with and the distortions produced by, foreign capitalist economic enclaves on predominantly peasant economies. The political consequences are examined, showing the weakness of regional interest groups and the failure of contemporary regional development policies.

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Book Description:

This volume traces the development of the central highlands, one of Peru's major mining regions. It draws on extensive fieldwork carried out in Peru between 1970 and 1982, spanning a reforming military government, reaction and a return to civilian politics under Belaunde.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0521248094
• ISBN 13: 9780521248099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300