Florencia 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 Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor and the Capitalist World-System in Africa and Latin America (1992).

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES NATIONAL GUARDS 21

Alternative Nationalisms and Hegemonic 89

Regional Political 137

National Resistance 176

Communal Hegemony and Alternative 220

ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL PROJECTS AND 245

Who Gets to Decide? Local Intellectuals 276

Popular Nationalism and Statemaking 310