Documento mecanografiado.

Contenido: Theoretical considerations. The articulation of modes of production -- The capitalist relations of distribution: usury capital and credit -- The specificity of sample commodity production -- Modes of production in the Peruvian social formation -- articulation within the Sierra: the Mantaro valley -- The structural specificity of the highlands and lowlands -- Tenure in the highlands -- Tenure in the lowlands -- Peasant movements, clientelism and class alliances -- Highland movements -- The development of capitalism in Peru -- Non - Capitalism modes of production and the reproduction of capital -- The qualitative between British and US Capital -- The Cerro de Pasco Corporation -- Foreing capital and the generalization of exchange -- The Sugar states the N. Coast -- The role of W.R. Grace and Co. -- Class alliannces, clientelism and the organic crisis of the state -- Reproduction the state, and the articulation of modes of reproduction -- The first crisis: billinghurst -- Intellectuals, economic-corporate groups and civil society -- The anti-civilist movement -- Leguia: a bismarkian figure -- The formation of a cleintelist state -- Conclusion -- Notes.

This paper concerns an analisys of certain aspects of the Peruvian social formation betwen 1900-1930. Here this main soncern rests with an indepth analisys of the agrarian structure, both in it's capitalist and non-capitalist dimensions and in their articulation within the economic system. For this purpose, the notions of mode of production and articulation and articulation will be utilized in order to obtain a more coherent conception of this socio-economic structure and its contradictions.