Peasants in World History Hardback
by Eric (Ghent University, Belgium) Vanhaute
Part of the Themes in World History series
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This is the first world history of peasants. Peasants in World History analyzes the multiple transformations of peasant life through history by focusing on three primary areas: the organization of peasant societies, their integration within wider societal structures, and the changing connections between local, regional and global processes. Peasants have been a vital component in human history over the last 10,000 years, with nearly one-third of the world’s population still living a peasant lifestyle today.
Their role as rural producers of ever-new surpluses instigated complex and often-opposing processes of social and spatial change throughout the world.
Eric Vanhaute frames this social change in a story of evolving peasant frontiers.
These frontiers provide a global comparative-historical lens to look at the social, economic and ecological changes within village-systems, agrarian empires and global capitalism.
Bringing the story of the peasantry up through the modern period and looking to the future, the author offers a succinct overview with students in mind. This book is recommended reading to anyone interested in the history and future of peasantries and is a valuable addition to undergraduate and graduate courses in World History, Global Economic History, Global Studies and Rural Sociology.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:146 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:23/03/2021
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- ISBN:9780415740937
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:146 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:23/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415740937