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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Peasantry"”.
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Peasantry to industry : labor and Chinese cokemaking township and village enterprises
This study examines the symbiotic relationship between labor relations and the resilience and performance of regional economies. I hypothesize that the institutional structure of the recent phenomenon of Chinese Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) creates opportunities for industrial labor …
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Fallahin on Trial in Colonial Egypt: Apprehending the Peasantry through Orality, Writing, and Performance
This dissertation explores the experiences of Egyptian peasants from the Delta province of Minufiyya who were tried for murder by newly created "native" or "national" courts between 1884 and 1914. Through the study of 2,000 pages of criminal files, I deconstruct how the colonial state used the …
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The political universe of economic policy : rising peasantry, the state and food policy in India
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1990.
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Socioeconomic stratification and differentiation of the modern peasantry: a longitudinal analysis of small farmers in Röndonia, Brazil
Land settlement programs have been promoted by governments worldwide to accomplish such broad goals as providing equitable land distribution among national populations, expanding agricultural production, correcting population imbalances, providing new income opportunities to the poor and landless, …
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P. D. Kiselev and the Rumanian Peasantry: The Influence of The Russian Occupation on Agrarian Relations in The Danubian Principalities, 1828-1834
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7514155.pdf: 10045715 bytes, checksum: c141527a1ae16b9f249b95a0fa551a1b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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The decline of sugar production and the rise of cocoa production in Grenada 1870-1917: the changing fortunes of a cocoa peasantry
… its neighbors, but gave rise to an independent peasantry. An evaluation of the resulting socioeconomic consequences will focus on how the cultivation of cocoa helped the peasantry improve their situation, provided them with a greater sense of humility and most importantly contributed to the …
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Daoine Sidhe: Celtic Superstitions of Death Within Irish Fairy Tales Featuring the Dullahan and Banshee
… the connection to cultural beliefs of the Irish peasantry. The dullahan is viewed as a headless horseman that appears to the peasantry when a death occurs, or is known for decapitating people who come across the dullahan's path. The banshee is believed to be a corpse-like spirit that wails and …
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The rural-urban dialectic in pre-monarchic Israel : Israel vis-a-vis the Canaanites and the Philistines, ca. 1200 to 1020 B.C.E
… extracting the produce of the village peasantry by means of enforced tributary relations. This extortion of the surplus product generated the conflict between the inhabitants of the rural areas and the city-dwellers. The resistance to such oppression by the peasantry engendered the …
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Social Revolution vs. Nationalism: Misleadership of Senegalese Writer/politicians
… one hand and the young urban proletariat and the peasantry on the other hand. Irreconcilable class divisions and harsh economic exploitation create misery for the urban and rural workers. Yet the solutions of the leading Senegalese writer/politicians do not exceed the petty bourgeois limitations …
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Land tenure and agrarian social structure in Ethiopia, 1636-1900
… them to collect tribute from the subject peasantry. By using land registers, surveys, charters, and private property transactions, which I collected from Ethiopian churches and monasteries, this dissertation challenges this conception of property in premodern Ethiopia by arguing that …
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Politics and land reform: the case of Esperanza, the Dominican Republic
… leaders have to appease the Dominican peasantry. Through the promise of reform, governmental leaders are able to control the rural campesinos while the economic position of the peasantry is continually compromised; campesinos are increasingly forced to live dualistic lives as wage …
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Picturing the peasant : nation and modernity in 20th century Bulgaria
… best elucidated through images of the Bulgarian peasantry. At one moment incorporated and at another excluded, modern and backward, embraced and reviled, the imagined peasantry reveals the anxieties and aspirations of Bulgarian state builders in the 20th century.
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Ecossistemas da Escravidão: histórias de trabalhadores potiguares (São José de Mipibu, década de 1970)
This dissertation discusses the formation of the peasantry in the Zona da Mata region of Rio Grande do Norte in the second half of the 19th century, based on notary and parish sources. In the first part, the daily lives of enslaved workers are examined, seeking their strategies for survival, …
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Women, development and social change : the women of rural Malawi : a case study
… design programmes and projects to integrate the peasantry into the free market economy which emphasizes productivity, technology and cash returns. On the other hand, peasant farmers, particularly women, with their primordial responsibility for domestic reproduction, are faced with the need to …
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Rubber tappers of the Upper Juruá River, Brazil: the making of a forest peasant economy
… market. Another conclusion holds that a forest peasantry with a highly-diversified local economy developed on the contemporary estates. This forest peasantry possesses its own stakes in the forest economy. It is not simply a proletariat forced to remain in the forest and supply the world or …
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Juan Bobo, postcoloniality and Frantz Fanon's theory of violence
… between Puerto Rico’s elite class and the rural peasantry. They play right into colonialism’s hands.
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Bureaucratic intervention and the development of peasant agriculture : the case of ALDEP in Botswana
… of the bureaucrats and their relationship to the peasantry within the context of the implementation of re-distributive policy. The thesis examines these issues ln detail by focusing on Botswana's major agricultural programme, the Arable Lands Development Programme (ALDEP). Field research was …
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The Trade of Agricultural Horses in Late Medieval England
… manorial court rolls to assess the role of the peasantry in the horse trade. The third section employs a price database constructed from the manorial account sample and is used to establish price levels for agricultural horses and illustrate the structure and nature of the market for the animals.
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Luta pela terra e pela sobrevivência na terra na microrregião de Sapé-PB: O assentamento zumbi dos palmares e o protagonismo dos jovens.
… that will ensure the reproduction of the peasantry in the areas of agrarian reform.
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The role of animals in Russian folk tales
… closer to the monasteries, while the illiterate peasantry kept many pagan ideas in their traditional folklore. Animals as divinities in pagan times are seen quite clearly in a lot of folk traditions and fairy tales. Animals are depicted in a positive light as man's friends and helpers; as …
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