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Free Download Marc Edelman, "Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change "
English | ISBN: 1501773941 | 2024 | 378 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world’s food and agriculture systems. Marc Edelman explains how peasant movements are staking their claims from farmers’ fields to massive protests around the world, shaping heated debates over peasants’ rights and the very category of "peasant" within the agrarian organizations and in the United Nations.

Free Download Constance Brittain Bouchard, "Negotiation and Resistance: Peasant Agency in High Medieval France"
English | ISBN: 1501766589 | 2022 | 186 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In Negotiation and Resistance, Constance Brittain Bouchard challenges familiar depictions of the peasantry as an undifferentiated mass of impoverished and powerless workers. Peasants in eleventh- and twelfth-century France had far more scope for action, self-determination, and resistance to oppressive treatment―that is, for agency―than they are usually credited with having. Through innovative readings of documents collected in medieval cartularies, Bouchard finds that while peasants lived hard, impoverished lives, they were able to negotiate, individually or collectively, to better their position, present cases in court, and make their own decisions about such fundamental issues as inheritance or choice of marriage partner. Negotiation and Resistance upends the received view of this period in French history as one in which lords dealt harshly and without opposition toward subservient peasants, offering numerous examples of peasants standing up for themselves.

Free Download Xiaorong Han, "Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949"
English | 2005 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0791463192, 0791463206 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals’ writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant-a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants.

Free Download Alan Macfarlane, "Historical Ethnography and Peasant Societies "
English | ISBN: 103240504X | 2022 | 168 pages | PDF | 1479 KB
Historical Ethnography and Peasant Societies: McKim Marriott, James Scott and Maurice Bloch is a collection of interviews that is being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by a leading British social anthropologist and historian, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are a part of the series Creative Lives and Works. These transcriptions cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences and the sciences to the performing and visual arts. The current volume is on three of the world’s most eminent sociologists and anthropologists – McKim Marriott, James Scott and Maurice Bloch.