List of tables; List of figures; List of maps; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: patterns of agrarian capitalism in Latin America; Part I. The transition from traditional hacienda to capitalist estate; 2. Hacienda profits and tenant farming in the Mexican Bajio, 1700–1860; 3. Landlord, labourer and tenant in San Luis Potosi, northern Mexico, 1822–1910; 4. Land and labour in rural Chile, 1850–1935; 5. The development of the Chilean hacienda system, 1850–1973; 6. Relations of production in Andean haciendas: Peru; 7. The formation of the coffee estate in nineteenth-century Costa Rica; Part II: The development of a plantation economy with labour recruitment from highland peasant communities; 8. The integration of the highland peasantry into the sugar cane economy of northern Argentina, 1930–43; 9. The social and economic consequences of modernisation in the Peruvian sugar industry, 1870–1930; 10. The dynamics of Indian peasant society and migration to coastal plantations in central Peru; 11. A Colombian coffee estate: Santa Barbara, Cundinamarca, 1870–1912; Part III. The development of commercial agriculture using European immigrant labour; 12. The coffee colono of Sao Paulo, Brazil: migration and mobility, 1880–1930; 13. The cereal boom and changes in the social and political structure of Santa Fe, Argentina, 1870–95; Part IV. The transition from slave plantation to capitalist plantation; 14. The consequences of modernisation fro Brazil's sugar plantations in the nineteenth century; 15. From bangue to usina: social aspects of growth and modernisation in the sugar industry of Pernambuco, Brazil, 1850–1920; 16. The evolution of rural wage labour in the Cauca Valley of Colombia, 1700–1970; 17. The post-emancipation origins of the relationships between the estates and the peasantry in Trinidad; Part V. Postscript; 18. Latin American 'landlords' and 'peasants' and the outer world during the national period; 19. Abstracts of other papers; Glossary; Weights and measures; Notes on contributors; Indexes.