Peasants in World History

di Eric Vanhaute (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021

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.

• Autore: Eric Vanhaute
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Themes in World History
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 146 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9780415740944

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