Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Peasants In World History
Author(s): Vanhaute Eric (Ghent University Belgium)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415740944
Pages: 146 Pages
Publication Date: 3/23/2021
Series: Themes in World History
Category: Agriculture & Related Industries