Florencia E MallonFlorencia E. Mallon is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940 (1983) and the coeditor of Cnfronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor and the Capitalist World-System in Africa and Latin America (1992). Read More Read Less