The End Of Peasantry

Author : R.E. Elson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349254576
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia written by R.E. Elson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that with demographic growth and the nineteenth century development of great global markets based on small-scale production, the size and economic significance of peasantries throughout the region was magnified. However, such changes brought with them new forces - stronger states, more regular legal systems, a revolution in communications, intensive commercialisation - which themselves worked to undermine the foundations of peasant society and, eventually, to transform peasants into farmers, workers and citizens.

Author : Grigory Ioffe
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973138
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Peasantry? written by Grigory Ioffe and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End of Peasantry? examines the dramatic recent decline of agriculture in post-Soviet Russia. Historically, Russian farmers have encountered difficulties relating to the sheer abundance of land, the vast distances between population centers, and harsh environmental conditions. More recently, the drastic depopulation of rural spaces, decreases in sown acreage, and overall inefficiency of land usage have resulted in the disruption and spatial fragmentation of the countryside. For many decades, rural migration has been a selective process, resulting in the most enterprising and self-motivated people leaving the rural periphery. The new agricultural operators representing nascent but aggressive Russian agribusiness have difficulty co-opting traditional rural communities afflicted by profound social dysfunction. The contrast between agriculture in proximity to large cities and in their hinterlands is as sharp as ever, and some vacant niches are increasingly occupied by ethnically non-Russian migrants. All of these conditions existed to some degree in pre-Soviet times, but they have been exacerbated since Russia took steps toward a market economy. Understudied and often underestimated in the West, the crisis facing Russian agriculture has profound implications for the political and economic stability of Russia. The authors see hope in the significant increase in land use intensity on vastly diminished farmland. The lessons gathered from this thoroughly researched study are far-reaching and relevant to the disciplines of Slavic and European studies, agriculture, political science, economics, and human geography.

Author : Jerome Blum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691007649
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord and Peasant in Russia written by Jerome Blum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1971-04-21 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the relationship between lord and peasant from the 9th to the 19th centuries, told against a background of Russian political and economic evolution.

Author : John Markoff
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271044411
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abolition of Feudalism written by John Markoff and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Freedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521548052
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia written by Paul Freedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1991 book is an examination of Catalonian peasants in the Middle Ages integrating archival evidence with medieval theories of society.

Author : Philip Huang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804780995
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China written by Philip Huang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1985-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries before the Revolution. His extensive research included eighteenth-century homicide case records, a nineteenth-century country government archive, large quantities of 1930's Japanese ethnographic materials, and his own field studies in 1980. Through a comparison of the histories of small family farms and larger scale managerial farms, the author documents and illustrates the long-term trends of agricultural commercialization, social stratification, and mounting population pressure in the peasant economy. He shows how those changes, in the absence of dynamic economic growth, combined over the course of several centuries to produce a majority, not simply of land-short peasants or of exploited tenants and agricultural laborers, but of poor peasants who required both family farming and agricultural wage income to survive. This interlocking of family farming with wage labor furnished a large supply of cheap labor, which in turn acted as a powerful brake of capital accumulation in the economy. The formation of such a poor peasantry ultimately altered both the nature of village communities and their relations with the elites and the state, creating tensions that led in the end to revolution.

Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521840686
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804 written by David Eltis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

Author : Boris B. Gorshkov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350126381
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin written by Boris B. Gorshkov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life under Russian serfdom : peasant society and politics under serfdom -- Peasant agriculture -- Peasants, childhood and gender roles -- The field and the loom : peasant economy -- Peasants and Russia's early industrialization -- The peasant and the formation of industrial labor forces -- From peasant to industrialist : social mobility of the peasantry -- Peasant public sphere -- Peasants and the end of serfdom -- Post-emancipation peasant economy and society -- Peasants and the Russian revolutions -- Realpolitik : from the Red Terror to the New Economic Policy -- Peasant life during collectivization -- Afterword : demise of the Russian peasantry.

Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860786
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers written by Allan Kulikoff and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127820
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930 written by Lynne Viola and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country’s social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would come to define Stalinism. This revelatory book presents—with analysis and commentary—the most important primary Soviet documents dealing with the brutal economic and cultural subjugation of the Russian peasantry. Drawn from previously unavailable and in many cases unknown archives, these harrowing documents provide the first unimpeded view of the experience of the peasantry during the years 1927-1930.The book, the first of four in the series, covers the background of collectivization, its violent implementation, and the mass peasant revolt that ensued. For its insights into the horrific fate of the Russian peasantry and into Stalin’s dictatorship, The War Against the Peasantry takes its place an as unparalleled resource.