Peasants and Peasant Societies

The book examines five main aspects of peasant life: social structure;local and global economy;class and political action; culture; attitudes and policies towards peasants. The study of peasant societies, especially in the context of changes brought about by "modernization", is a developing area of contemporary social science. This growth is reflected in the new edition of a work first published in 1971. More than half the items in this edition are new and mirror the achievements, controversies and queries of the 1980s.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Peasantry as a Concept and a Field of Studies ; I A Peasant Societies: Units and Structure 1. A Polish Peasant Family W.I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki 2. A Peasant Household: Russia at the Turn of the Century Teodor Shanin 3. Women in the Smallholder Agriculture H. Inhetveen and M. Blashe 4. Peasanthood as Neighbourhood Henry Hebib Ayrout 5. A Turkish Village Paul Stirling 6. Group Relations in a Complex Society: the Rural Mexico Eric R. Wolf 7. Peasantry as a Way of Living Fei Hsiu Tung 8. The Part Societies with Part Culture R. Redfield 9. Peasant Economy as a Category of History Daniel Thorner 10. Metropolis and Peasant: The Expansion of the Urban- Industrial Complex Andrew Pearce ; I B Peasant Societies: Diversity and Analytical "Hedges" ; 11. African Peasantries J.S. Saul and R. Woods 12. Latifundia and Agricultural Labour in Latin America Ernest Feder 13. Rural Social Change: General Typology, Family Farms, Collectivisation Boguslaw Galeski 14. Hungary: Collectivisation Which Works Nigel Swain 15. Workers-Peasants in Three Worlds Chris Hann 16. V.P. Danilov on the Analytical Distinction Between Peasants and Farmers Orlando Figes 17. Family Farmers and Classical Conceptions 'Versus' The Experience of Monopoly Capitalism Goran Djurfeldt ; II A Peasantry as an Economy: Farming and the Farm ; 18. Farming as an Occupation Boguslaw Galeski 19. Agriculture as Man's Transformation of Nature Rene Dumont 20. Nature, Ecology Movements and Peasant Communities Gail Omved 21. Agriculture as a Productive Activity Mircea Melita 22. Crafts and Trades Among the Russian Peasants Geroid T. Robinson 23. Labour Shortage in Egyptian Agriculture: A crisis for whom? Elizabeth Taylor 24. Rural Credit in Peasant Societies Susan George 25. Chayanov and the Theory of Peasant Economies Basil Kerbley 26. Peasantry and Capitalism: A Marxist Discourse Hamza Alavi ; II B Peasantry as an Economy: The Extra-Village Context ; 27. Peasant Markets and Indian Peasant Economies Manning Nash 28. Merchants and Markets of Grain in South Asia Barbara Harriss 29. Political Economy of Starvation Amartya Sen 30. Landed Property in Bengal: Power and Faction as an Economic Factor Hussain Zillur Rahman 31. Capitalism and Peasant Production: the Green Revolution in India John Harriss 32. The Family Farm and the International Food Regimes Harriet Friedmann ; III Peasantry As A Culture ; 33. Peasant Traditional Culture Kazimierz Dobrovolskii 34. The Vision of a Peasant John Berger 35. The Peasant View of the Bad Life F.G. Bailey 36. Peasant Culture, Peasant Economy Sutti Ortiz 37. Peasant Moral Economy as a Subsistence Ethic James C. Scott 38. Peasant Consciousness: Culture and Conflict in Zimbabwe: Terence Ranger ; IV Peasantry As A Class ; 39. Peasantry as a Class Karl Marx 40. Social Bandit as a Pre-capitalist Phenomenon Eric Hobsbawm 41. Conflict, Resistance and Collective Action versus capitalisationand Statemaking Charles Tilly 42. Village Factions Hamza Alavi 43. Peasantry in