Includes maps of: El Salvador; Usulutan; Tenancingo; Campesino Political Affiliations in El Tronador, 1976.

The puzzle of insurgent collective action -- Ethnographic research in the shadow of civil war -- Redrawing the boundaries of class and citizenship -- From political mobilization to armed insurgency -- The political foundations of dual sovereignty -- The re-emergence of civil society -- Campesino accounts of insurgent participation -- Explaining insurgent collective action -- Epilogue: legacies of an agrarian insurgency -- Appendix: A model of high-risk collective action by subordinate social actors -- Chronology of El Salvador's civil war.