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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986

The wave of accessions to legal independence in the aftermath of World War II was of extraordinary importance. There was an intoxicating confidence and determination, a sense that everything was possible. A half-century later, the world looks different. The author adroitly delineates the uneven performance of newly-constructed or reimagined nation-states, and the shifting perceptions of the poorer countries in the world. Forrest D. Colburn is a Professor at the City University of New York, New York, USA

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Latin America as a Place -- 3 Urban Bias -- 4 An Ideological Vacuum -- 5 Fragile Democracies -- 6 The Business of Being in Business -- 7 Environmental Degradation -- 8 Malls -- 9 Crime -- 10 The Poor -- 11 Struggling for Gender Equality -- 12 El Gringo -- 13 What to Paint? -- 14 Migration -- 15 Conclusion -- List of Illustrations -- A Note about Sources -- Bibliography

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Everyday Forms of Resistance -- 2. Between Submission and Violence: Peasant Resistance in the Polish Manorial Economy of the Eighteenth Century -- 3. Saboteurs in the Forest: Colonialism and Peasant Resistance in the Indian Himalaya -- 4. The Conspiracy of Silence and the Atomistic Political Activity of the Egyptian Peasantry, 1882-1952 -- 5. Class, Gender, and Peasant Resistance in Central Colombia, 1900-1930

The countries of Latin America remain highly susceptible to international political and economic trends. Since 2002, the region has prospered: growth has been close to 6 percent per year—the highest since the 1970s, and far above the lackluster, long-run average of 3 percent. This growth spurt is traced in large part to a bonanza: high international prices for commodities. But credit must also be given to governors who have pursued sober macroeconomic policies. To date the region has navigated the shoals of the concomitant weakening of its most important trading partner—the United States—and the mess in the international credit market. Still, the boom from robust commodities prices, in everything from oil to copper to soybeans, raises unsettling questions.

On 15 March 2009, Mauricio Funes, the candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)–a former guerrilla movement that laid down its arms in 1992 and reconstituted itself as a political party–won the presidential election in El Salvador, marking the country's first peaceful turnover of power since the nation-state became independent in 1821. But sweeping social and political change will probably be elusive; instead, political and economic constraints are apt to lead to a surprising continuity in public policy.