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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"peasants"”.
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Pastoralists, Peasants, and Politics in Roman North Africa
Pastoralists, Peasants, and Politics is an investigation of the interaction between nomads and sedentarists in North Africa during the period of Roman rule, with concentration on the aspects of the relationship that pertain directly to the extension of Roman political authority over the Maghrib. …
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Peasants and Policymakers, Agricultural transformation in Java under Suharto
Following the East Asian success story Indonesia also subscribed to a model with increased productivity, income and equity through modernisation of agriculture. When it was hit by a severe crisis in 1997, Indonesia was regarded as one of the up and coming tigers of Southeast Asia. The crisis …
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Mexican Peasants and the Mexican State: Reform and Continuity
State-rural poor relations in Mexico remained fairly stable (between 1970 and 1994) in regard to their political role and consequences for the majority of the rural poor. A small subset of the rural poor, those able, or potentially able, to compete in the national and international agricultural …
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Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720
This dissertation charts the social interactions, work experiences, and routes traveled by Asian workers within and between the colonial Philippines and Mexico between 1571 and 1720. Residents of early colonial Mexico called these workers chinos. Most free chinos were Filipinos, but enslaved chinos …
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The origins of the peasant agitation in Oudh : the awakening of the peasants?
… Sabhas (peasant federations) demonstrate the peasants' ability to form groups independent of the aid of provincial or all-India figures or organizations. Two different groups of Kisan Sabhas developed in the United Provinces; one was led by political leaders from Allahabad and the other was …
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Peasants, skinners, and dead cattle: The transformation of rural society in western Japan, 1600-1890
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Chinese Peasants on the Wheels of Change: Rural Reform and Its Impact in a Tianjin Village
The remarkable flourishing of life-cycle and calendrical rituals is a sign of the state's diminishing ideological hegemony in the village. The main proponents of traditional rituals refused to endorse the state's application of the science/superstition, modernity/tradition divides to their own …
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Feeding Shanghai: Lanlingnese peasants and the making of "supply chain qua world" in post-socialist China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Of Roads and Revolutions: Peasants, Property, and the Politics of Development in La LIbertad, Chontales (1895-1995)
This dissertation analyzes the political-economy of agrarian social relations and uneven development in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua. It locates the development of agrarian structures and municipal politics at the interstices of local level processes and supra-local political-economic …
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Soviet Peasants and the "Test of War": Food Politics and the Second World War in the Soviet Countryside, 1939-1945
This dissertation is the first archive-based study of the Soviet countryside during the Second World War in English (or French). It is about life, death, and survival on the collective farms between 1939 and 1945. Problematically neglected in Western historiography, the story of how the majority of …
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Between the Peasants and the Leviathan: The Expropriation and Spontaneous Seizure of American-Owned Agricultural Property in Mexico, 1934-1941
"The Cardenas administration also played an integral role in ensuring that the bilateral conflict over land was settled peacefully by employing the diplomatic ""weapons of the weak."" Mexican officials avoided precipitating hard-line U.S. policies during the agrarian dispute by frequently promising …
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Dem Schwerte Muss Der Pflug Folgen: Űber-Peasants and National Socialist Settlements in the Occupied Eastern Territories during World War Two
German industrialization in the nineteenth century had brought forward a variety of conflicting ideas when it came to the agrarian community. One of them was the agrarian romantic movement led by Adam Műller, who feared the loss of the traditional German peasant. Műller influenced Reichdeutsche …
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Assessing the role of local Authority institutions on peasants-pastoralists land use conflict mitigation in Tanzania, a case of Kishapu District
… on land use conflict mitigation between peasants and pastoralists in Kishapu district, Tanzania. A case study design was adapted. A sample of 100 purposively selected respondents constituting peasants, pastoralists and local authority officials participated in the study. Questionnaire …
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Assessing the role of local Authority institutions on peasants-pastoralists land use conflict mitigation in Tanzania, a case of Kishapu District
… on land use conflict mitigation between peasants and pastoralists in Kishapu district, Tanzania. A case study design was adapted. A sample of 100 purposively selected respondents constituting peasants, pastoralists and local authority officials participated in the study. Questionnaire …
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Make a living: agriculture, industry and commerce in Eastern Hebei, 1870-1937
… and peasant economy always portrayed Chinese peasants as cultivators and equated agricultural commercialization as cash crop growing. Based on the field surveys made by the Chinese and Japanese investigators in the 1930s, this dissertation tries to correct the over-simplification of the …
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Fallahin on Trial in Colonial Egypt: Apprehending the Peasantry through Orality, Writing, and Performance
… 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 modern …
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Groups, classes and peasant politics in Ghana and Papua New Guinea
… class in Ghana and Papua New Guinea . The big peasants emerged from pre-existent rural elites during the development of cash cropping associated with the interaction between Ghanaian and Papua New Guinean societies and the world economy . Some attempt is made to take account of the diversity of …
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Groups, classes and peasant politics in Ghana and Papua New Guinea
… class in Ghana and Papua New Guinea . The big peasants emerged from pre-existent rural elites during the development of cash cropping associated with the interaction between Ghanaian and Papua New Guinean societies and the world economy . Some attempt is made to take account of the diversity of …
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Food sovereignty’s potential to address poverty and hunger by creating sustainable peasant led agri-food systems: a case study from the Brazilian food acquisition programme in Mirandiba, Pernambuco
… analysis focusing on the livelihoods of peasants in the sertão in North-Eastern Brazil. The overall aim is to assess the implementation and local effects of a policy, which is based on three food sovereignty principles, and determine in what ways and to what extent it promotes food …
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