This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their originality and synthesis from the colloquia of the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, encompass various disciplines, diverse historical periods, and several regions of the world. The contributors' fresh analyses will broaden the perspectives of readers with interests as wide-ranging as rural sociology, environmentalism, political science, history, anthropology, economics, and art history. The ten studies recast and expand what is...
This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their orig...
"However urban the nation has become," Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, "twenty percent of its citizens still live outside major metropolitan areas. Moreover, rural economic activity agricultural, extractive, recreational, and industrial has an enormous impact on the nation's overall economic well-being. The stories of contemporary rural people still have the power to move us. . . . They reflect the values, dreams, and ideals at the core of the economically, racially, and ethnically diverse American experience."
The Countryside in the Age of the Modern...
"However urban the nation has become," Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, "twenty percent of its citizens still live outside maj...
Barrington, JR. Moore James C. Scott Edward Friedman
A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now."-New York Times Book Review""
A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now."-New York Times...
Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico. While most accounts have emphasized either the role of peasants and peasant rebellions or that of state formation in Mexico's past, these original essays reveal the state's day-to-day engagement with grassroots society by examining popular cultures and forms of the state simultaneously and in relation to one another. Structured in the form of a dialogue between a distinguished array of...
Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in ...
This title brings together some of James C. Scott's most important work. The book covers three distinct yet interlinked bodies of work. It lays out a framework for understanding peasant politics and rebellion, much of which is applicable to rural areas of the contemporary global south.
This title brings together some of James C. Scott's most important work. The book covers three distinct yet interlinked bodies of work. It lays out a ...
