The Rational Peasant

Author : Samuel L. Popkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1979-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520039548

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[This provacative reinterpretation of Vietnamese history in particular and peasant society in general will be of wide interest to political scientists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, development planners, and Asian scholars].

Author : Thomas David Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0742525392

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Caught in the Crossfire by Thomas David Mason Pdf

The puzzle of revolution in the Third World -- Theories of revolution : the evolution of the field -- Dependent development and the crisis of rural stability -- Mobilizing peasant social movements -- The response of the state : reform or repression? -- State repression and the escalation of revolutionary violence -- Win, lose, or draw : how civil wars end -- Reform, repression, and revolution in El Salvador -- Peruvian land reform the rise of Sendero Luminoso -- The future of revolutions in the countryside : globalization, democratization, and peacekeeping.

Author : Samuel Kernell,Samuel L. Popkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520330726

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Chief of Staff by Samuel Kernell,Samuel L. Popkin Pdf

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 1986.

Author : Samuel L. Popkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520035615

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The Rational Peasant by Samuel L. Popkin Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Little
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300054777

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Understanding Peasant China by Daniel Little Pdf

In this innovative book, Daniel Little compares the positions of various social scientists regarding debates in China studies. Little focuses on four topics: the relative importance of individual rationality and community values in explaining traditional peasant behavior; the role of marketing and transportation systems in Chinese society; the causes of agricultural stagnation in traditional China; and the reasons for peasant rebellions in Qing China. He not only makes a constructive contribution to these controversies but also provides examples of the diversity of social science research.

Author : Alina Mungiu
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789639776784

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A Tale of Two Villages by Alina Mungiu Pdf

This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union. "One of Romania’s foremost social critics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi offers a valuable look at several decades of policy that marginalized that country’s rural population, from the 1918 land reform to the post-1989 property restitution. Illustrating her arguments with a close comparison of two contrasting villages, she describes the actions of a long series of “predatory elites,” from feudal landowners through the Communist Party through post-communist leaders, all of whom maintained the rural population’s dependency. A forceful concluding chapter shows that its prospects for improvement are scarcely better within the EU. Romania’s villagers have an eminent and spirited advocate in the author.”

Author : James Ambrose Raftis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773514031

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Peasant Economic Development Within the English Manorial System by James Ambrose Raftis Pdf

Challenging a hundred-year tradition that English peasants were serfs at the disposal of their lord, J.A. Raftis argues that tenants were in considerable control of the manorial regime and were able to take advantage of what most scholars have considered to be exploitive and negative aspects of the medieval agricultural economy.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Economics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR00307505

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Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : David T. Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742568747

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Caught in the Crossfire by David T. Mason Pdf

Caught in the Crossfire presents a multifaceted explanation of why people participate in something as dangerous and uncertain as a revolutionary movement. Beginning with an analysis of the grievances that motivate peasant participation in political movements, the book also explores the additional factors_leadership, resources, and strategies_required to mobilize peasants for collective action. Collective action itself need not be violent, but a repressive state response can quickly transform a reformist movement into a revolution. Mason shows how different strategies on the part of various actors can result in a government victory, a rebel victory, or a negotiated settlement. The book concludes with a look to the future: Will the emerging trends toward political democratization and economic globalization make revolution in the countryside more or less likely?

Author : Karen Barkey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501720871

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Bandits and Bureaucrats by Karen Barkey Pdf

Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandits, formerly mercenary soldiers, were not interested in rebellion but concentrated on trying to gain state resources, more as rogue clients than as primitive rebels. The state's ability to control and manipulate bandits—through deals, bargains and patronage—suggests imperial strength rather than weakness, she maintains. Bandits and Bureaucrats details, in a rich, archivally based analysis, state-society relations in the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Exploring current eurocentric theories of state building, the author illuminates a period often mischaracterized as one in which the state declined in power. Outlining the processes of imperial rule, Barkey relates the state political and military institutions to their socal foundations. She compares the Ottoman route with state centralization in the Chinese and Russian empires, and contrasts experiences of rebellion in France during the same period. Bandits and Bureaucrats thus develops a theoretical interpretation of imperial state centralization through incorporation and bargaining with social groups, and at the same time enriches our understanding of the dynamics of Ottoman history.

Author : Kapil Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UCSC:32106006876079

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Peasants in Revolt by Kapil Kumar Pdf

This Book Deals With The Impact Of Imperial Policies On The Countryside, The Emergence Of The Taluqdari System, The Classification Of Peasant Society, Peasants Exploitation, The Emergence Of Peasant Organizations, The Role Of Militant Rural Intelligentsia, The Peasant Struggles And The Attitude Of The Dominant Social Groups Towards These Struggles. It Also Attempts To Analyse The Peasants` Perception Of Gandhi And Gandhi`S Attitude Towords The Peasants` Response To His Call.

Author : Didier Fassin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118959503

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A Companion to Moral Anthropology by Didier Fassin Pdf

A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities, and the exploration of moral economies. Investigates the central legacies of moral anthropology, the formation of moral facts and values, the context of local moralities, and the frontiers between moralities, politics, humanitarianism Features contributions from pioneers in the field of moral anthropology, as well as international experts in related fields such as moral philosophy, moral psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroethics

Author : Eric Vanhaute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317807674

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Peasants in World History by Eric Vanhaute Pdf

This is the first world history of peasants. Peasants in World History analyzes the multiple transformations of peasant life through history by focusing on three primary areas: the organization of peasant societies, their integration within wider societal structures, and the changing connections between local, regional and global processes. Peasants have been a vital component in human history over the last 10,000 years, with nearly one-third of the world’s population still living a peasant lifestyle today. Their role as rural producers of ever-new surpluses instigated complex and often-opposing processes of social and spatial change throughout the world. Eric Vanhaute frames this social change in a story of evolving peasant frontiers. These frontiers provide a global comparative-historical lens to look at the social, economic and ecological changes within village-systems, agrarian empires and global capitalism. Bringing the story of the peasantry up through the modern period and looking to the future, the author offers a succinct overview with students in mind. This book is recommended reading to anyone interested in the history and future of peasantries and is a valuable addition to undergraduate and graduate courses in World History, Global Economic History, Global Studies and Rural Sociology.

Author : T. Carver,P. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349241835

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Rational Choice Marxism by T. Carver,P. Thomas Pdf

To begin with, rational choice Marxism, promised to construct historical explanations and social theories with clarity and rigour. Subsequently, it took a `political turn' in addressing issues of class and production, and the prospects for electoral socialism. This anthology commences with the founding classics - Erik Olin Wright's `What is Analytical Marxism?' and Alan Carling's spirited challenge to the Marxist establishment - which are answered with critical responses detailed by Ellen Meiksins Wood and Michael Burawoy in previously uncollected debates. Also included are further debates charting the historical progression of rational choice Marxism. The editors demonstrate that the clarity and rigour originally promised by the rational choice Marxists was never in fact achieved, but that rational choice Marxism has considerably enhanced the theoretical treatment of class and production in a world of commodification and difference.

Author : Rolf Bauer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004385184

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The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India by Rolf Bauer Pdf

In The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India, Rolf Bauer deals with the peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. He shows how the peasants were forced to cultivate this unremunerative crop through a collaboration of the state and the Indian elite.