Peasants Against the State The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983

Name: Peasants Against the State The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983
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ISBN: 9780226080314

ISBN-10: 0226080315

ISBN-13: 9780226080314

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Stephen G. Bunker

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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…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/18/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Used in the Text Glossary of Lugisu Words Used in the Text


Introduction



The Changing Ecology of Power, 1900-1940



The Campaign for Control of the Local Market, 1940-55



The Primacy of Politics



The Struggles for BCU Autonomy, 1955-58



National Independence, Politics, and Conflict within the BCU, 1958-63



Struggles for Administrative Control after Independence, 1963-66



Cooptation and Control under a Single-Party Regime, 1966-71



Centralization under Violence and Dependency, 1971-83



Conclusion: Suppression of Local Organization and Decline in Peasant Marketing








Afterword


References


Index