Results 21 to 30 of about 43,082,655 (318)

Modernizing peasants and 'master farmers': all-India crop competitions and the politics of progressive agriculture in early independent India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the years following independence, looking toward agricultural self-sufficiency, India's national leadership sought to identify cultivators endowed with the daring, grit, and experimental character needed to actualize the promise of plenty.
Siegel, Benjamin
core   +1 more source

In search of liberal Tsarism: the historiography of autocratic decline [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The idea that the autocracy might have successfully modernized itself has, in recent years, spread widely beyond academic circles. However, a look at traditional and recent historiography shows that very few historians support this line.
Read, Christopher
core   +1 more source

Controlling land they call their own: access and women's empowerment in Northern Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Formal rights to land are often promoted as an essential part of empowering women, particularly in the Global South. We look at two grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working on land rights and empowerment with Maasai communities in ...
Davis, Alicia   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Russian population’s political activities in the first third of the XX century on the example of the Peasant Union creation movement

open access: yesУправление, 2023
The article studies peasantry’s political activities development in Russia in the first third of the XX century. The reasons and the essence of the Peasant Union in the revolutionary events of 1905–1907 and 1917, the Civil War and in the period of the ...
G. S. Chuwardin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Should equality be viewed from a lifetime or sublifetime perspective? In measuring the inequality of income, for example, should we measure the inequality of lifetime income or of annual income? In characterizing a tax as progressive or regressive,
Adler, Matthew D.
core   +5 more sources

Anthropology of peasant protest during the years of “revolutionary turning point” [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
Based on a wide range of published sources and archival materials, including documents of official record management, newspaper reports and chronicles, a historical and anthropological analysis of the generational factor during the period of the ...
Bezgin V.B. , Viazinkin A.Yu.
doaj   +1 more source

The significance of distance constraints in peasant farming systems with special reference to sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Analysis of agricultural development potential at village level tends to neglect the factor of relative location, compared with the attention paid to physical resources and economic factors.
McCall, M.K.
core   +4 more sources

The agrarian question in Tanzania: the case of tobacco [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 32Since independence in 1961, Tanzania has pursued a policy of institutionalizing a middle peasantry, while stymieing the development of capitalism's principal classes.
Mueller, Susanne D.
core  

Characterizing Parental Concerns About Lasting Impacts of Treatment in Children With B‐Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

¿Indígena campesino o indígena urbano? Aproximaciones desde los procesos de movilidad mapuche en la ciudad intermedia de Temuco (Chile)

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2020
The article aims to examine relevant aspects of “being an indigenous peasant in the city” through mobility processes. It attends practices and meanings of Mapuche mobility that connect the city of Temuco and its surrounding towns of Maquehue and Labranza
Gonzalo Salazar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy