Peasants in World History (Themes in World History) - 9780415740944
Routledge
ISBN13:
9780415740944
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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.
- | Author: Eric Vanhaute
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: March 25, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0415740940
- | ISBN-13: 9780415740944
- Author:
- Eric Vanhaute
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- March 25, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 224 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0415740940
- ISBN-13:
- 9780415740944