Despite the centrality in the study of the peasantry in Latin America, for various disciplines, this category is still bound to static images of a group defined according to the State and capital.
Jennifer A. Devine +2 more
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Household production and capitalist development in contemporary Russia [PDF]
This essay reviews four recent books based on research on the development of capitalism and the position of household-based farming in post-Soviet Russia.
Serova, Wegren
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Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs +4 more
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A fost Dimitrie Gusti (doar) tehnician în guvernul ţărănist?
This paper, aiming to clarify the Professor Gusti’s position within the government between 1932 and 1933, tries to gather necessary arguments against the belief which emerged in the fifties and still valid until present days, that Dimitrie Gusti was ...
Zoltán Rostás
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The classical debate of the peasantry and its resistance in the capitalist mode of production
This essay proofreads the classical studies on the insertion of capitalism in the countryside and the questionable extinction of peasants. Based on the linear conceptions of the evolution of capitalism, late 19th century authors such as Karl Kautsky and ...
Juliano Ricciardi Floriano Silva
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The agrarian question in Tanzania: the case of tobacco [PDF]
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.
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Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann +2 more
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Soviet armed formations in the fight against the insurgency in the territory of the Volga German region (March – April 1921) [PDF]
The article examines one of the episodes of the struggle of Soviet armed formations against the peasant insurgency during the end of the Civil War. We are talking about the suppression of an uprising in the territory of the Volga Germans in March –
Korolev, German K.
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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The Northern Russian Parish Community: Collective and Personal in Orthodox Votive Practice (the second half of the 19th — first quarter of the 20th centuries) [PDF]
The Russian peasantry’s traditional spiritual life until the early 20th century was determined by Orthodox beliefs and the specifics of the ethnic variant of a unified Christian culture that developed in the Russian North.
Nadezhda V. Alekseeva
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