... that they can best be understood by adopting an anthropological perspective and viewing social mobilization through an experiential lens. It draws on court documents and personal accounts to examine the quasi-revolutionary experiences of the southern Italian peasantry. Revolutions in general can be seen...

..., (d) his influence among established statisticians in the Russian Empire, including the zemstvo statisticians, was quite modest and (e) he was instrumental in establishing official statistical organs in the USSR. Keywords: CENSUSES IN USSR; CENTRAL STATISTICAL ADMINISTRATION OF USSR; PEASANTRY...

... and detrimental to real freedom. Lastly, there were “civic radical” intellectuals who sympathized with a broadly conceived socialist left but were wary of party discipline and critical of what they saw as reductionist materialism. In all these subcultures, the question of the peasantry, the relationship...

... of Württemberg 1737–93 Karl Leopold Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin Mecklenburg duchy peasantry Anselm von Reichlin Meldegg Prince Abbot of Kempten 1727–47 Gielsberg Roman Giel von Prince Abbot of Kempten 1636–73 Kempten Imperial Abbey of Landschaften Reichlin Meldegg Anselm von Prince Abbot of Kempten 1727...

...-revolutionary liberalism William Carleton peasantry landowners Improvement writers asserted the lasting pleasures of hard work and the most banal of tasks from weeding to cleaning the kitchen floor. The educational programme of liberal improvement reflects this faith in the value of physical work...

...This chapter considers the ability of the English peasantry — who held customary land in the Middle Ages — to construct inheritance strategies, juxtaposed with the interests of the lord. The aim is to systematize the transmission options of customary tenants and observe the way they were enlarged...

... Mohamed World wars Fanon Frantz Algeria politics Lacheref Mostefa Conquest Peasantry Dispossession Class Workers Pied-noir Christians Muslims Jews The Frenchmen who conquered the land now called Algeria were ruthless. Before they arrived, the indigenous Berber people had survived many...

...The Revolution’s interaction with, and impact upon, the countryside during the years 1790–2 is the focus of this chapter. Rural unrest continued during these years and the relationship between legislators in Paris and a diverse peasantry evolved and often exhibited signs of conflict, tension...

... Intelligence Agency CIA Organization of American States War of 1898 Cuba Dominican Republic Haiti Peasantry Sugar U.S. intervention Resistance State formation Dictators Traveling in Haiti in the early 1870s, the North American traveler Samuel Hazard asked residents living near the ruins...

...This Chapter addresses differences in agrarian structures, politics and policies between Norway and Scotland. It identifies four key processes: (1) agrarian improvers acceleration of the first agrarian revolution in Scotland through forced enclosures and the dispossession of the peasantry (2...

... colonialism. The expansion of the domain of agricultural scientific knowledge production occupies a central place in the story of science in modern Egypt. Focusing on the Egyptian peasantry, this chapter explores discourses that traverse amateur ethnography, literary realism, and positivist human geographical...

... rural decay and criminality as reasons to institute reforms. A series of positivist interventions ensued to create a nahda rifiyya (rural renaissance) and to achieve new forms of social and spatial organization aimed at guiding the peasantry to “reformed” norms of behavior, modes...

... Peasants use of term Roosevelt Eleanor Rumbaugh Constance Scarlett Bishop Benjamin Aaron Anzile Government men derivation of the term Delta boll weevil Buckshot ground Illinois Central Railroad Company Delta land promotion Skene E P Tugwell Rexford G Guy Plain folk Peasantry Southern Alluvial...

... States. The interplay between monarchy, bourgeoisie and peasantry that explains the differing patterns of democracy which emerged in the three countries had important implications for inter-governmental relationships. Although, in Britain, concessions by landowners to capitalists did not promote strong...

.... It begins with an overview of debates concerning whether certain actions of the peasants could properly be defined as “resistance.” It then analyzes the conflicts between the state and the peasantry in the supply crises of 1953 and 1955. It demonstrates why hunger became strongly politicized and came...

...This chapter discusses various aspects of village life pertaining to daily existence. It presents letters written by the peasantry, expressing their views about alcohol consumption, education, the youth, women, religion, and disorder. Communist Party and Brest Litovsk Treaty Gorky Maxim Novaia...

... and accompanying commentary result in a unique history of the Soviet peasantry's engagement and struggle with a powerful state, enabling readers to hear the voice of a social class that throughout history has too often been rendered voiceless....

... for Bhattacharya Dwaipayan Bose Sugato development unnayan Franda Marcus Herring Ronald identities incommensurability land land redistribution majurs laborers Mukhopadhyay Bhaskar Rudd Arild Englesen self conception caste hierarchy democratic politics peasantry social hierarchies and peasants...

... or capitalist nature of these large landed estates, plantations, estancias, and ejidos (or land-owning Indian villages)—and the peasantry. Both this rich historiographical tradition and newer works on rural life are surveyed. agriculture Argentina Brazil historiography Latin America Mexico migration...