Authors:Douglas Miller, Angus McBride,
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: men, war, peasants, german, armies
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2003-02-19
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1841765074
ISBN-13: 9781841765075
In the 1520s, a brief but savage war broke out in Germany when various insurgent groups rose to overthrow the power structure. The movement took as its emblem a peasant’s shoe and the collective title of ’Bundschuh’, and this became known as the Peasants’ War - although the rebel armies actually included as many townsmen, miners, disaffected knights and mercenary soldiers as rural peasants. The risings involved large armies of up to 18,000 men, and there were several major battles before the movement was put down with the utmost ferocity. This book details the armies, t
Authors:Raaj K. Sah, Joseph E. Stiglitz,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: burden, economic, development, taxation, dwellers, versus, city, peasants
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-04-11
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0199253579
ISBN-13: 9780199253579
In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development’s major issues. Most of today’s countries face town versus country tensions of increasing severity, including such issues as who should pay how much in taxes, who should get how much in subsidies, and what forms the taxes and subsidies should take. This volume analyses these tensions and issues, taking into account the great diversity of institutions and economic environments observed in different developing countries.
Author: Lucien Bianco
Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc
Keywords: century, china, asia, pacific, twentieth, movements, party, grass, root, peasants
Number of Pages: 309
Published: 2001-06
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1563248409
ISBN-13: 9781563248405
Authors:Peter Garnsey, Walter Scheidel,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: social, economic, history, essays, antiquity, peasants, food, classical, cities
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2004-02-12
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0521892902
ISBN-13: 9780521892902
This is a collection of essays in the social and economic history of Greece and Rome by a leading historian of classical antiquity. They are grouped in three overlapping sections, covering the economy and society of cities; peasants and the rural economy; and food supply and famine. The essays, all previously published, are presented together with bibliographical addenda by Walter Scheidel that summarize and assess scholarly reaction to the author’s work. The range of subject matter and approach is wide and the treatment original and provocative.
Authors:Kevin Leicht, Scott Fitzgerald,
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Keywords: contemporary, social, issues, prosperity, class, peasants, illusion, middle, postindustrial
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2006-08-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0716757656
ISBN-13: 9780716757658
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 t
Author: Hilton L. Root
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: social, series, choice, political, economy, california, absolutism, burgundy, king, agrarian, foundations, french, peasants
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1992-12-04
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520080971
ISBN-13: 9780520080973
The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society.
Authors:Sulamith Heins Potter, Jack M. Potter,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: revolution, anthropology, peasants, china
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1990-03-30
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 052135787X
ISBN-13: 9780521357876
This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution of 1949. The authors examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu’s peasant villagers and document the rapid changeover from Maoist to post-Maoist China. In particular, they seek to explain the persistence of the deep structure of Chinese culture through thirty years of revolutionary praxis. A video documentary, produced by the Potters and Tom Luehrsen, Zengbu After Mao, is available from New Dimension Media. For video
