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...Orin Starn Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes . By Mitchell William P. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1991 . Photographs. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 264 pp. Cloth . $30.00 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press...

...T. H. Goodspeed New Crops for the New World . Edited by Wilson Charles Morrow . ( New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. 295 . Photographs. $3.50 .) Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 ...

...Hannah Greenwald Abstract In 1879, as the Argentine army prepared a military campaign against Indigenous groups in the Pampas and Patagonia, the national government created an Indigenous colony called Colonia General Conesa. Conesa's inhabitants were expected to build homes and cultivate crops...

... known to include agricultural produce. Our analysis demonstrates how the circulation of khipu styles within the Island of the Sun was linked to hacienda production, underscoring the intimate relationship between khipus and hacienda culture. Modern herding and crop khipus did not arise out...

... at one point in time, including the size of individual properties, principal crops grown and the use of irrigation, and an estimate of the value. A subsequent survey for the Sacaba Valley, preserved in the prefectural archive in the city of Cochabamba, has been dated to about 1912 through a comparison...

... by Duke University Press 1977 There are surprisingly few first-rate analyses of the place of a particular crop in the economic and cultural history of a Latin American country. Professor Hall, setting her sights on coffee and its role in the transformation of the Costa Rican landscape and society...

... Spain. Instead, the analysis extends from the Caribbean and the Valley of Mexico in the south to the California missions, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the north, with a sidelong look at Spanish Florida in the bargain. Dunmire’s chief concern is to figure out when various crops arrived where...

... Press 1976 Holloway writes with real grace, style, and occasional humor in a work that is also detailed and complex. The valorization scheme is a telling case of direct governmental action to protect a planter class and exporters from the most painful aspects of mono-crop dependence. Coming only...

... suited for food crops held down production for domestic consumption. With marketing costs high, farmers could not specialize according to regional comparative advantage, and the supply of food was relatively unresponsive to rising prices in urban areas. As a result, expansion of the money supply...

... in the late eighteenth century. 11 Like most Andean people, Cochabambinos took advantage of extreme ecological diversity to cultivate a wide variety of Andean and European crops. But Cochabamba’s fertile valleys were particularly suitable for planting grains, and maize was the region’s staple crop under...

... in Zinacantan is the milpa system, and the bulk of Cancian’s book details precisely the farming techniques, organization of labor, labor input, relations with land owners, crop yields, locations of fields, transportation problems, marketing, etc., all of which factors figure prominently in the milpero’s world...

..., beans and wheat, and of the main export crop, scarlet dye. The present study examines first of all, the two central and related aspects of Oaxaca’s economy during the late colonial period: the problems of land tenure and the relation between the dye export trade and the subsistence economy...

... and increased production to meet growing urban demands for foodstuffs. They sought to enhance their own interests by experimenting with crop diversification, exploiting ambiguities in governmental policy, and attempting to turn agricultural crises to their own advantage. Meanwhile, the Indian villages...

... interested in “agrarian reform” and in the development of emerging nations. Large scale production of a tropical or subtropical field crop fulfilling these conditions required adequate land and adequate labor. The former was available almost everywhere in the Americas, but indigenous labor was scarce...

... only Indian subsistence farmers had incentives to intensify cultivation through irrigated double-cropping, hacendados found that irrigation enabled them to produce wheat during the dry winter months and thereby avoid fungal infestations and other hazards of the rainy season. Subject therefore...

... behavior, and in institutions. The underlying biophysical variation, which influences the overall pattern of subsistence activities in a given village, serves as a template for variation in the use of river versus forest resources, access to markets, cultivation of cash crops, use of government credit...

... collections. When we compare published and unpublished photos, the demands of publishers become apparent. The author also studied how publishers altered and cropped photos to their liking; this discussion leads to a fascinating discourse on the art of cropping. Mraz frankly explains how he cropped (or did...

....” Baralt’s monograph is a major contribution in two respects. First, it proves that raising minor crops for local consumption could be as profitable as producing sugar (or coffee, at century’s end) for export. Buena Vista, first an estancia (a nonmanufacturing agricultural unit) and then a hacienda (where...