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Here van Gogh explicitly links the plight of European peasants and American slaves, and pictures such as The Potato Eaters may have meant to suggest that equation.
But "this ecological catastrophe--for it is an immense one--is above all the result of a misguided government policy," in effect since the early 1970s when a military dictatorship was in power, that sought to populate the Amazonian forest with poor peasants from northeastern Brazil.
The peasants and army veterans Siegelbaum encounters think favorably of the war.
If the peasants were squeezed by taxes to pay for the luxury of Mughal court life, it was a boon for the country’s artisans — goldsmiths, jewelers, and weavers.
Thus, the general trend for more and more peasants to drift away from the land to the cities has been noticeably less marked here.