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Bond Men Made Free
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95Rodney Hilton's account of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 remains the classic authoritative text on the 'English Rising'. Hilton views the revolt in the context of a general European pattern of class conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere unrelated outbreaks of violence but had their roots in... more...
Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 144.99Using a wide array of archival documentation, including Inquisition records, wills, dowry contracts, folklore, and court cases, Poska examines how early modern Spanish peasant women asserted and perceived their authority within the family and community and how the large numbers of female-headed households in the region functioned in the absence of... more...
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 42.00An examination of Catalonian peasants in the Middle Ages integrating archival evidence with medieval theories of society. more...
Agrarian Reform in Russia
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 76.00This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy. more...
From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 33.00This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of enslavement. more...
From Heaven to Earth
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 46.95Much has been written of China's peasant revolution, less has been written on the peasant experience of reform. In From Heaven to Earth Elisabeth Croll examines the images, policies and experiences of development and links the peasants' experience of revolution and reform with their conceptualisations of time and change and examines the new and recent... more...
Trials of Nation Making
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 24.00This book offers the first interpretive synthesis of the history of Andean peasants and the challenges of nation-making in the four republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and raises broader issues about the interplay of liberalism, racism, and ethnicity in the formation of exclusionary 'republics without citizens'. more...
The Emancipation of the Serfs in Russia
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95In the wake of the disastrous Crimean War, the Russian autocracy completely renovated its most basic social, political and economic systems by emancipating some 23 million privately-owned serfs. This had enormous consequences for all aspects of Russian life, and profound effects on the course of Russian history. This book examines the emancipation... more...
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