- Paperback: 302 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; Reprinted edition edition (1 April 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226080315
- ISBN-13: 978-0226080314
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,291,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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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The metropolitan demand for raw materials and the colonial state's need to reduce production and administrative costs led the British to introduce cash cropping into indigenous subsistence and land-tenure systems and to coopt indigenous authorities into colonial administration. Read the first page
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The metropolitan demand for raw materials and the colonial state's need to reduce production and administrative costs led the British to introduce cash cropping into indigenous subsistence and land-tenure systems and to coopt indigenous authorities into colonial administration. Read the first page
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