This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant's relation to markets and non-peasant groups; and their problems in the modern world.

This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant's relation to markets and non-peasant groups; and their problems in the modern world.

In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to Summer - the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the g...(展开全部)

Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English history. Starting with village riots in the Essex countryside, chaos rapidly spread across mu...(展开全部)

Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English history. Starting with village riots in the Essex countryside, chaos rapidly spread across mu...(展开全部)

扬·杜威·范德普勒格（Jan Douwe van der Ploeg），1950年生于荷兰北部的弗里斯兰。荷兰瓦赫宁根大学教授，意大利农业部部长顾问。曾任荷兰瓦赫宁根大学农村社会学系主任。主要研究领域包括农民研究、农业方式、农村发展、土地改革、食物市场、技术变迁等。主要著作包括《劳动力、市场与农业生产》《超越现代化》《揭秘农场主》《新小农阶级》《小农与农业的艺术》《中国的小农农业与农村社会》等。 叶敬忠，1967年生于江苏省沭阳县。荷兰瓦赫宁根大学社会学博士，中国农业大学人文与发展学院教授，博士生导师。研究领域包括发展历史与发展理论、发展战略与农政变迁、人口流动与留守人口、小农农业与农村社会、农村教育与社会问题等。 潘璐，1981年生于山东省胶州市。中国农业大学发展研究方向管理学博士，中国农业大学人文与发展学院副教授，博士生导师。研究领域包括农民研究...(展开全部)

E.J. Weber examined school records, migration patterns, military service documents and economic trends to argue that until the middle of the Third Republic, a sense of French nationhood was weak in the provinces. Weber then looked at how the policies of the Third Republic created a sense of French nationality in rural areas. The book was widely praised, but was criticized by so...(展开全部)

E.J. Weber was born in Britain, graduating with a BA in 1950 and an MA from Cambridge in 1954. In 1950, he married Jacqueline Brument-Roth. Weber taught at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1953–1954) and the University of Alberta (1954–1955) before settling in the United States, where he taught first at the University of Iowa (1955–1956) and then, until 1993, at the University of C...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consum...(展开全部)