This book provides an introduction to the subjects of land reform by distinguishing and systematizing the controversial questions that arise from it, with brief surveys of Iraq, Persia, India, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela. Can reforms both effectively liberate the peasant and efficiently organize increased production? What is their bearing on the world food crisis? Are the fashionable rival prescriptions no more than accretions of Myth? What factor in the Latin American background explain the contrasts in principle and practice that emerge from comparison with the Old World?