{"product_id":"9781477326282-rural-state","title":"The Rural State","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaking Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A study of the intersection of rural populations, state formation, and the origins of political conflict in Peru.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the eve of the twentieth century, Peru seemed like a profitable and yet fairly unexploited country. Both foreign capitalists and local state makers envisioned how remote highland areas were essential to a sustainable national economy. Mobilizing Andean populations lay at the core of this endeavor. In his groundbreaking book, \u003ci\u003eThe Rural State\u003c\/i\u003e, Javier Puente uncovers the surprising and overlooked ways that Peru’s rural communities formed the political nation-state that still exists today. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Puente documents how people living in the Peruvian central sierra in the twentieth century confronted emerging and consolidating powers of state and capital and engaged in an ongoing struggle over increasingly elusive subsistence and autonomies. Over the years, policy, politics, and social turmoil shaped the rural, mountainous regions of Peru until violent unrest, perpetrated by the Shining Path and other revolutionary groups, unveiled the extent, limits, and fractures of a century-long process of rural state formation. Examining the conflicts between one rural community and the many iterations of statehood in the central sierra of Peru, \u003ci\u003eThe Rural State\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh perspective on how the Andes became la sierra, how pueblos became comunidades, and how indígenas became campesinos. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40823513350241,"sku":"9781477326282","price":37.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37709160_79c3e695-8e4d-4cbc-aae4-042dae1bb897.jpg?v=1762421411","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781477326282-rural-state","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}