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Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.

A refreshing look at the meaning of socialism in Venezuela from the point of view of the country's ordinary citizens.

This book brings together James C. Scott's most important work on peasant religion and ideology; everyday forms of peasant resistance; and state technologies of

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