Peasants in Power The Political Economy of Development and Genocide
This book shows how Rwanda’s development model and the organisation of genocide are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of mineral resources, the elite organised and managed the labour of peasant producers as efficient as possible. In order to stay
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Peasants in Power The Political Economy of Development and Genocide in Rwanda
Peasants in Power
Philip Verwimp
Peasants in Power The Political Economy of Development and Genocide in Rwanda
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Philip Verwimp Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels Belgium
ISBN 978-94-007-6433-0 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6434-7
ISBN 978-94-007-6434-7
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Advance Praise for Peasants in Power ‘‘This book will make a major impact not only on the scholarship of the Rwandan genocide but also on our knowledge of agrarian societies and their susceptibility in times of economic crisis to state or elite manipulation, particularly those societies that are densely-populated, smallholder-dominated, and ethnically divided. It is a striking intervention on a topic of global concern that is not likely to diminish in the future, given current trends of population growth, resource exhaustion, ecological crisis, ethnopolitical polarization, and proliferation of weaponry.’’ Ben Kiernan, A. Whtiney Griswold, P
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