Environment, society, and rural change in Latin America : the past, present, and future in the countryside

Essays examine various topics of immediate importance to rural Latin America: colonization of new land; land reform; social change and ethnicity; rural emigration; and penetration of farming by external interests. First-hand experience in different disciplines of the social sciences and different cultural sectors of Latin America are applied to these issues by resident and former-resident authors with a direct concern for the area. Monographic compilation of essays on agrarian reform, land settlement, social change, rural migration and foreign investment in Latin America - analyses agrarian structures, land reforms, cultural change, agricultural development and rural development, ethnic factors, population density and urbanization, urban area-based development policies in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and discusses role of USA and other foreign enterprises. Bibliographys, graphs, maps and statistical tables Edited By David A. Preston. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.