Wagering the Land

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 expand section1  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART I  PREWAR BUGUIAS
 expand section2  Food, Fuel, and Fiber:  Human Environmental Relations in Prewar Buguias
 expand section3  Social Relations:  Power and Labor
 expand section4  Religion:  The Role of the Ancestors
 expand section5  Commercial and Political Relations
 expand sectionInterregnum:  The War

 collapse sectionPART II  VITALITY AND VULNERABILITY:  FLUCTUATIONS IN THE POSTWAR ECONOMY, 1946–1986
 Introduction
 expand section6  The Establishment of Commercial Vegetable Agriculture
 expand section7  The Sociology and Economics of Vegetable Production, 1946–1972
 collapse section8  Economic and Ecological Crisis
 Introduction
 expand sectionBoom, Bust, and Readjustment
 expand sectionDemography
 expand sectionDeforestation
 collapse sectionWater Shortages, Erosion, and Biocides
 Water Shortages
 Erosion
 Biocides, Human Health, and Faunal Destruction
 expand sectionThe Vegetable Frontier
 expand section9  Social Conflict and Political Struggle
 expand section10  Religion in Modern Buguias
 expand section11  Conclusion:  Understanding Buguias's Aberrant Development

 expand sectionNotes
  GLOSSARY
 expand sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX

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