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Will the Boat Sink the Water?

Author : Chen Guidi
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485393
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Will the Boat Sink the Water? written by Chen Guidi and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social and economic leap forward, because if it is to leap it must carry the 900 million with it. Chinese journalists Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi returned to Wu's home province of Anhui, one of China's poorest, to undertake a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants there, asking the question: Have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer. Told principally through four dramatic narratives of particular Anhui people, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth of daily life for its vast population of rural poor.

State and Peasant in Contemporary China

Author : Jean C. Oi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520076370
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book State and Peasant in Contemporary China written by Jean C. Oi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-08-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest and extract the state-defined surplus. To provide the reader with a clearer sense of the evolution of peasant-state relations over almost a forty-year period and to highlight the dramatic changes that have taken place since 1978,1 have divided my analysis into two parts: Chapters 2 through 7 are on Maoist China, and chapters 8 and 9 are on post-Mao China. The first part examines the state's grain policies and patterns of local politics that emerged during the highly collectivized Maoist period, when the state closed free grain markets and established the system of unified purchase and sales (tonggou tongxiao). The second part describes the new methods for the production and division of the harvest after 1978, when the government decollectivized agriculture and abolished its unified procurement program.

Postindustrial Peasants

Author : Kevin Leicht
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780716757658
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Postindustrial Peasants written by Kevin Leicht and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By most accounts the economic vigor of the United States is unprecedented. Despite this collective wealth, the American middle class is struggling to live the American dream. Indeed, there are many similarities between the modern middle class, peasants in feudal societies, and sharecroppers in agrarian societies. Postindustrial Peasants describes the current plight of the middle class, then offers a multi-level recommendation designed to encourage an active response to the development of the modern "postindustrial peasant." This new work can used in a variety of classes, including Intro to sociology, social problems, culture, history, and American studies.

The Miserable Life of Medieval Peasants

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429633352
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Miserable Life of Medieval Peasants written by Jim Whiting and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disgusting food. Stinky houses. Scratchy clothes. Find out how medieval peasants coped with their miserable lives.

A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, C. 1295-1344

Author : Judith Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, C. 1295-1344 written by Judith Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of medieval village life is told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant woman who lived on one English manor in the early fourteenth century. This truly unique book offers a wealth of insight into medieval peasant society, bringing many of the characteristics of a time and a people to life. Short and readable, it is an ideal text for undergraduate teaching, suitable for courses in Western civilization, medieval history, women's history, and English history.

Grabbing Power

Author : Tanya M Kerssen
Publisher : Food First Books
ISBN 13 : 0935028447
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Grabbing Power written by Tanya M Kerssen and published by Food First Books. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grabbing Power explores the history of agribusiness and land conflicts in Northern Honduras focusing on the Aguán Valley, where peasant movements battle large palm oil producers for the right to land. In the wake of a military coup that overthrew Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, rural communities in the Aguán have been brutally repressed, with over 60 people killed in just over two years. United States military aid--spent in the name of the War on Drugs--fuels the Honduran government's ability to repress its people. A strong and inspiring movement for land, food and democracy has grown over the last two years, and it shows no sign of backing down.

Pig Earth

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307794229
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Pig Earth written by John Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this haunting first volume of his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of summer haymaking and long dark winters f rest; of a message of forgiveness from a dead father to his prodigal son; and of the marvelous Lucie Cabrol, exiled to a hut high in the mountains, but an inexorable part of the lives of men who have known her. Above all, this masterpiece of sensuous description and profound moral resonance is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.

The Peasant's Revolt

Author : Alastair Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peasant's Revolt written by Alastair Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly good book on a revolt which came within a few minutes of changing our history utterly --totally absorbing.

Remembering Peasants

Author : Patrick Joyce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668031086
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Peasants written by Patrick Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. “What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support.” For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life—the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago—is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry, social historian Patrick Joyce aims to tell the story of this lost world and its people, and how we can commemorate their way of life. In one sense, this is a global history, ambitious in scope, taking us from the urbanization of the early 19th century to the present day. But more specifically, Joyce’s focus is the demise of the European peasantry and of their rites, traditions, and beliefs. Alongside this he brings in stories of individuals as well as places, including his own family, and looks at how peasants and their ways of life have been memorialized in photographs, literature, and in museums. Joyce explores a people whose voice is vastly underrepresented in human history and is usually mediated through others. And now peasants are vanishing in one of the greatest historical transformations of our time. Written with the skill and authority of a great historian, Remembering Peasants is a landmark work, a richly complex and passionate history written with exquisite care. It is also deeply resonant, as Joyce shines a light on people whose knowledge of the land is being irretrievably lost during our critical time of climate crisis and the rise of industrial agriculture. Enlightening, timely, and vitally important, this book commemorates an extraordinary culture whose impact on history—and the future—remains profoundly relevant.

A Comparative Study of Production Organization Among Peasant in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, with Special Reference to Associative Productiion Strategies

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Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Study of Production Organization Among Peasant in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, with Special Reference to Associative Productiion Strategies written by and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930

Author : David Moon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895193
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930 written by David Moon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive work, set to become the standard history on the subject, offers a definitive survey of peasant society in Russia, from the consolidation of serfdom and tsarist autocracy in the 17th century through to the destruction of the peasant's traditional world under Stalin. Over three-quarters of Russian society were peasants in these years, and David Moon explores all aspects of their life xxx; including the rural economy, peasant households, village communities xxx; and their political role, including protest against the landowning elites. In the process he presents a fresh perspective on the history of Russia itself. A big book in every way xxx; and compellingly readable.

Stalin's Peasants

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195104592
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Peasants written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, this work analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village

The Rational Peasant

Author : Samuel L. Popkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341627
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Rational Peasant written by Samuel L. Popkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy view of peasant behavior stands in contrast to the model of a distinctive peasant moral economy in which the village community is primarily responsible for ensuring the welfare of its members.

Something of a Peasant Paradise?

Author : Gregory M.W. Kennedy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773590552
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Something of a Peasant Paradise? written by Gregory M.W. Kennedy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were Acadians better off than their rural counterparts in old regime France? Did they enjoy a Golden Age? To what degree did a distinct Acadian identity emerge before the wars and deportations of the mid-eighteenth century? In Something of a Peasant Paradise?, Gregory Kennedy compares Acadie in North America with a region of western France, the Loudunais, from which a number of the colonists originated. Kennedy considers the natural environment, the role of the state, the economy, the seigneury, and local governance in each place to show that similarities between the two societies have been greatly underestimated or ignored. The Acadian colonists and the people of the Loudunais were frontier peoples, with dispersed settlement patterns based on kin groups, who sought to make the best use of the land and to profit from trade opportunities. Both societies were hierarchical, demonstrated a high degree of political agency, and employed the same institutions of local governance to organize their affairs and negotiate state demands. Neither group was inherently more prosperous, egalitarian, or independent-minded than the other. Rather, the emergence of a distinct Acadian identity can be traced to the gradual adaptation of traditional methods, institutions, and ideas to their new environmental and political situations. A compelling comparative analysis based on archival evidence on both sides of the Atlantic, Something of a Peasant Paradise? Challenges the traditional historiography and demonstrates that Acadian society shared many of its characteristics with other French rural societies of the period.

Agricultural Change and Peasant Choice in a Thai Village

Author : Michael Moerman
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520369483
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Change and Peasant Choice in a Thai Village written by Michael Moerman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Pierre Goubert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521312691
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century written by Pierre Goubert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-06-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the regional, social and economic variety of pre-modern France, this survey of rural life examines the crucial external relationships between peasant/priest and peasant/seigneur as well as the not less important ones that existed within the peasant life lived from cradle to grave.

Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry

Author : John Bushnell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253030137
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry written by John Bushnell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely identified with female peasant marriage aversion was the Old Believer Spasovite covenant, and Bushnell argues that some of these women might have had more agency in the decision to marry than more common peasant tradition ordinarily allowed. Bushnell explores the cataclysmic social and economic impacts these decisions had on the villages, sometimes dragging entire households into poverty and ultimate dissolution. In this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of resistance and reaction.