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Book Title: Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Mo...
Number of Pages: 544 Pages
Publication Name: Challenging Social Inequality : the Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, Social History, General, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Latin America / South America, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.2 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25.6 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Miguel Carter
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
