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1 Introduction: patterns of agrarian capitalism in Latin America

PART I: THE TRANSITION FROM TRADITIONAL HACIENDA TO CAPITALIST ESTATE

2 Hacienda profits and tenant farming in the Mexican Bajio, 1700-1860

3 Landlord, labourer, and tenant in San Luis Potosi, northern Mexico, 1822-1910

4 Land and labour in rural Chile, 1850-1935

5 The development of the Chilean hacienda system, 1850-1973

6 Relations of production in Andean haciendas: Peru

7 The formation of the coffee estate in nineteenth-century Costa Rica

PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLANTATION ECONOMY WITH LABOUR RECRUITMENT FROM HIGHLAND PEASANT COMMUNITIES

8 The integration of the highland peasantry into the sugar cane economy of northern Argentina, 1930—43

9 The social and economic consequences of modernization in the Peruvian sugar industry, 1870-1930

10 The dynamics of Indian peasant society and migration to coastal plantations in central Peru

11 A Colombian coffee estate: Santa Barbara, Cundinamarca, 1870-1912

PART III: THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE USING EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT LABOUR

12 The coffee colono of Sao Paulo, Brazil: migration and mobility, 1880-1930

13 The cereal boom and changes in the social and political structure of Santa Fe, Argentina, 1870—95

PART IV: THE TRANSITION FROM SLAVE PLANTATION TO CAPITALIST PLANTATION

14 The consequences of modernization for Brazil's sugar plantations in the nineteenth century

15 From bangue to usina: social aspects of growth and modernization in the sugar industry of Pernambuco, Brazil, 18 50-1920

16 The evolution of rural wage labour in the Cauca Valley of Colombia, 1700-1970

17 The post-emancipation origins of the relationships between the estates and the peasantry in Trinidad

PART V: POSTSCRIPT

18 Latin American 'landlords' and 'peasants' and the outer world during the national period

19 Abstracts of other papers

Glossary of Spanish and Portuguese terms used in the text

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