Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983 - Stephen G. Bunker - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226080314 - June 18, 1991
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Stephen G. Bunker
Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983

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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 struggling to control their own economic destiny while resisting the power of the world economy.

302 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 18, 1991
ISBN13 9780226080314
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 302
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   425 g
Language English  

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