Table of Contents
Introduction : perspectives on food in Latin America --The formation of nutritional regimes in colonial Latin America /John C. SSuper --The politics of urban provisioning in Latin American history /Thomas C. Wright --Succulence and sustenance : region, class, and diet in nineteenth-century Peru /Vincent C. Peloso --Latin American food production and population in the era of land reform since the 1950's /James W. Wilkie and Manuel Moreno-Ibâaänez --Subsistence agriculture in Latin America /Roland Bergman --United States food aid and the agricultural development of Brazil and Colombia /Lana L. Hall --Food dependency and malnutrition in Venezuela, 1958-74 /Eleanor Witte Wright --Food production and distribution in Cuba : the impact of the revolution /Nancy Forster and Howard Handelman --Food politics and agricultural change in revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-82 /Rose J. Spalding --Sociopolitical forces and technology : critical reflections on the green revolution /Ivan Sergiio Freire de Sousa, Edward Gerald Singer, and William Flinn.