From resistance to revolt - the late mediaeval peasant wars in the context of social crisis, Frantisek Graus; the peasants of Swabia, 1525, Henry J. Cohn; images of the peasant, 1514-1525, R.W.

First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is widely accepted as a stylised fact of agriculture in developing countries, a generalised phenomenon observed in widely differing agro-climatic conditions and agrarian structures.

This collection celebrates T.J. Byres' seminal contributions to the political economy of the agrarian question. Uniting the various themes is the demonstration of the continuing relevance of a critical, historical and comparative materialist analysis of agrarian question.

The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is widely accepted as a stylised fact of agriculture in developing countries, a generalised phenomenon observed in widely differing agro-climatic conditions and agrarian structures.

This collection celebrates T.J. Byres' seminal contributions to the political economy of the agrarian question. Uniting the various themes is the demonstration of the continuing relevance of a critical, historical and comparative materialist analysis of agrarian question.

The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America.

Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, post-modernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of otherness/difference lies the concept of and innate peasant-ness. In a variety of contextual-specific discursive forms, the old populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The post-modern new populism and the new right, both of which...

The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies on peasant economy and rural labour, the historical and contemporary nature of peasant/state relations, debates over Amazonian peasantries, forms taken by local/regional/national peasant ideology/agency, and political disputes over agrarian reform. Land still remains on the agenda of most Latin American peasants,...