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A troubled past, an uncertain future / Henry Veltmeyer -- From rubber estate to simple commodity production : agrarian struggles in the northern Bolivian Amazon / William Assies -- The impact of neoliberal economies on Peruvian peasant agriculture in the 1990s / John Crabtree -- Whither o campesinato? : historical peasantries of Brazilian Amazonia / Stephen Nugent -- From dependency to reform and back again : the Chilean peasantry during the Twentieth Century / Warwick E. Murray -- Globalization and the reinvention of Amazonian tradition : the politics of community and ethnicity in Highland Bolivia / John McNeish -- Devil pact narratives in rural Central America / Kees Jansen -- Class, gender and "resistance" / Esther Roquas -- Representing Peasants? : struggles for/about land in Brazil / Souza Martins -- On which side of what barricade? : subaltern resistance in Latin America and elsewhere / Tom Brass.