Tag: Peasants

Free Download Govind P. Sreenivasan, "The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe"
English | 2004 | pages: 411 | ISBN: 0521834708, 0521044588 | PDF | 2,8 mb
Focusing on the lands of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren and based on a mass of archival data, this study presents a detailed reconstruction of peasant society in early modern Germany. It argues that the German rural economy performed much better than has previously been believed. The Ottobeuren peasantry generated large agricultural surpluses, became progressively more active in land and credit markets, and traded in ever wider circuits of commerce. Their peasant society is shown therefore to have been stable economically, and surprisingly resilient to war, plague and famine.

Free Download Edyta Materka, "Dystopia’s Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0253028965, 0253028876 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 3.2 mb
Toward the end of the Second World War, Poland’s annexation of eastern German lands precipitated one of the largest demographic upheavals in European history. Edyta Materka travels to her native village in these "Recovered Territories," where she listens carefully to rich oral histories told by original postwar Slavic settlers and remaining ethnic Germans who witnessed the metamorphosis of eastern Germany into western Poland. She discovers that peasants, workers, and elites adapted war-honed informal strategies they called "kombinacja" to preserve a modicum of local agency while surviving the vicissitudes of policy formulated elsewhere, from Stalinist collectivization to the shock doctrine of neoliberalism. Informality has taken many forms: as a way of life, a world view, an alternate historical text, a border memory, and a means of magical transformation during times of crisis. Materka ventures beyond conventional ethnography to trace the diverse historical, literary, and psychological dimensions of kombinacja. Grappling with the legacies of informality in her own transnational family, Materka searches for the "kombinator within" on the borderlands and shares her own memories of how the Polish diaspora found new uses for kombinacja in America.

Free Download Katherine Brun, "The Abbot and his Peasants: Territorial Formation in Salem from the Later Middle Ages to the Thirty Years War"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 3828205461 | PDF | pages: 488 | 25.0 mb
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Free Download Ruben Gowricharn, "The Girmitiya Peasants in Suriname: Agrarian and Economic Transformations in a Plantation Society"
English | ISBN: 3031679601 | 2024 | 310 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 19 MB
This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home. It demonstrates the transformation of the Girmitiyas from agriculturalists in British India to plantation labourers to peasants and finally to urban dwellers.

Free Download Mark Tilzey, "Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf "
English | ISBN: 113859640X | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB | 656 KB
Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf’s celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path-breaking Europe and the People Without History, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf’s contribution to the study of the peasantry and its relationship to capitalism, the state, and imperialism.

Free Download Mark Tilzey, "Peasants, Capitalism, and Imperialism in an Age of Politico-Ecological Crisis "
English | ISBN: 1032508442 | 2023 | 358 pages | EPUB, PDF | 787 KB + 7 MB
This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South.

Free Download Colombian Peasants in the Neoliberal Age: Between War Rentierism and Subsistence
by Nazih F Richani
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1438494122 | 336 Pages | True PDF | 3.66 MB

Free Download Nazih F. Richani, "Colombian Peasants in the Neoliberal Age: Between War Rentierism and Subsistence"
English | ISBN: 1438494122 | 2023 | 310 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.

Free Download Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQRV3WR2 | 2024 | 12 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 365 MB
Author: Patrick Joyce
Narrator: Philip Bird

Free Download Arnved Nedkvitne, "Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic"
English | ISBN: 0815366299 | 2018 | 446 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
How could a community of 2000-3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985-1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway.