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Continuing Obstacles to Agricultural Development in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

J. Colin Crossley
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , November 1972 , pp. 293 - 305
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