Peasantry
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants may hold title to land either in fee simple or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.In a colloquial sense, "peasant" often has a pejorative meaning that is therefore seen as insulting and controversial in some circles, even when referring to farm laborers in the developing world. …
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Fraser Institute · 14 December 2023 English
After Estonia ended socialist rule and transitioned back to a market democracy, Estonians enjoyed vast improvements in their incomes, living standards and other key measures of prosperity. After the second …
largest social group in the Soviet Union, the peasantry. The peasant, perhaps especially the Ukrainian …
Fraser Institute · 30 November 2023 English
After the Soviet Union invaded Estonia and imposed socialism, living standards in Estonia plummeted—particularly compared to neighbouring Finland. Estonia and Finland share much in common including geography and natural resources. …
largest social group in the Soviet Union, the peasantry. The peasant, perhaps especially the Ukrainian …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English
At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in …
relations, the impover- ishment of large sections of peasantry over the nineteenth century, and, con- sequently …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English
The catastrophic terror Soviet power unleashed on the Ukrainian countryside in the early 1930s altered every aspect of village life. Based on extensive interviews with villagers throughout Ukraine, The Transformation …
ticipation of many thousands of activists. For the peasantry in particular, the campaign included coercion … collectivization. Ukrainian peasantry in the 1920s differed from Russian peasantry in substantial and important … differences between the Russian and Ukrainian peasantry, major problems appear in the Soviet historical … who more or less repeated the Leninist views on peasantry – L.N. Kritsman and A.V. Chayanov (Chayanov 1986) … entirely misplaced when discussing Ukrainian peasantry, especially as espoused by Danilov (Danilov 1988) …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 April 2023 English
In early 1918 the French government adopted the policy of unremitting hostility that characterized its early relations with the Soviet government. That policy brought about political, economic, and military intervention …
and other necessities. In the countryside, the peasantry was discontented because of conscription and …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2023 English
At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada’s post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the …
Catholic and undeniably hostile Roman Catholic peasantry of that part of Ulster. Although the province … scoffed at the superstitions of the Catholic peasantry. Holy water, charms, and amulets were already … the Irish Catholics were not like the Hungarian peasantry who, in the belief that the nobility was spreading … offspring. Inside the mud cabins of the poorest peasantry, where the young frequently went naked until … themselves poor, but the bulk of the Donegal Catholic peasantry was so horrifically pauperized that Martha felt …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2023 English
The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a participatory revolution, with consultants, advisors, and non-profits called into communities, classrooms, and corporations alike to listen to …
such as Orlando Fals Borda, a scholar of the peasantry and other oppressed groups in Columbia, who were …
CHB: Coach House Books · 7 February 2023 English
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD THE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023 CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST …
the character traits of the Scottish and Irish peasantry to see how far they might be ‘improved’ and ‘refined …
QSEP: Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population · 14 December 2022 English
(2009). Inventing the "American way": the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civil rights movement. [...] Neoliberal Racism and the Movement for Black Lives in the United …
“Democracy and Economic Transformation” on India’s peasantry ● Koo, H. (1999). Modernity in South Korea: an …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2022 English
A very welcome addition to the “new social history from below!” This book plots the vital role that militant “campesino” actors played in transforming Cochabamba’s local political culture in their …
wave” meant the popular political imagery of the peasantry in Latin America became derogatory again, while … move- ment—especially the support coming from the peasantry—was weak in Bolivia, because Bolivians were experiencing … power—rural work- ers were no more than a “passive peasantry.” In a similar vein, Dunkerley states, in an … transformed the scholarly perception of the Cochabamba peasantry.14 Her pioneering, long-term analysis of the … on the political experience of the Cochabamba peasantry. Historians José M. Gordillo and Laura Gotkowitz …
