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Scarcity and Survival in Central America
William H. Durham
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Description for Scarcity and Survival in Central America
Paperback. Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this book challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. It demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the war, was largely a product of the concentration of landholdings. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3480 x 17. Weight in Grams: 295.
Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this study challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. The author demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the war, was largely a product of the concentration of landholdings.
The analysis focuses on the emigration of 300,000 Salvadoreans to Honduras in the years before the war, inquiring into the reasons for the emigration, its impact on local agricultural economies, and its relation to the conflict. Answers to these questions are based on a ... Read more
Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this study challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. The author demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the war, was largely a product of the concentration of landholdings.
The analysis focuses on the emigration of 300,000 Salvadoreans to Honduras in the years before the war, inquiring into the reasons for the emigration, its impact on local agricultural economies, and its relation to the conflict. Answers to these questions are based on a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804711548
SKU
V9780804711548
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About William H. Durham
William H. Durham is Bing Professor in Human Biology and the Stanford Director of the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development (CESD).
Reviews for Scarcity and Survival in Central America
"The great importance if Durham's book lies precisely in its solid, data-based documentation of the fallaciousness of the argument that population density always explains resource scarcity."-American Anthropologist