Social Classes in Agrarian Societies
Author: Rodolfo Stavenhagen
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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Studies in Agrarian Social Structure
Author: André Béteille
Publisher: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Author`S Main Concern In This Work Is With Patterns Of Inequality And Conflict As These Arise From The Ownership, Control And Use Of Land-A Subject Of Crucial Importance To An Understanding Of Conditions In India.
Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change
Author: Henry Bernstein
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1565493567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry Bernstein argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change. Providing an accessible introduction to agrarian political economy, he shows clearly how the argument for "bringing class back in" provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. He also ably illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change. Production and Productivity. Origins of Early Development of Capitalism. Colonialism and Capitalism. Farming and Agriculture, Local and Global. Neoliberal Globalization and World Agriculture. Capitalist Agriculture and Non-Capitalist Farmers? Class Formation in the Countryside. Complexities of Class.
Strong Mothers, Weak Wives
Author: Miriam M. Johnson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780520061620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For years I have been impressed by the originality and insight of Johnson's articles on gender, sexuality, and male dominance. This book continues and expands the excellent quality of the earlier work. . . [It] provides an original argument about the central structural locus of gender inequality, and makes a major advance in its insightful and insistent focus on the role of the father in gender differentiation and sexual dominance. . . . It will surely be recognized as a major work of feminist theory."—Nancy Chodorow, author of The Reproduction of Mothering "This thoughtful and provocative book greatly deepens the debate over the effects of mothers and fathers on their children."—Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift: Inside the Two-Job Marriage
Postindustrial Peasants
Author: Kevin Leicht
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-08-18
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780716757658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy most accounts the economic vigor of the United States is unprecedented. Despite this collective wealth, the American middle class is struggling to live the American dream. Indeed, there are many similarities between the modern middle class, peasants in feudal societies, and sharecroppers in agrarian societies. Postindustrial Peasants describes the current plight of the middle class, then offers a multi-level recommendation designed to encourage an active response to the development of the modern "postindustrial peasant." This new work can used in a variety of classes, including Intro to sociology, social problems, culture, history, and American studies.
Agrarian Class Conflict
Author: Joseph Tharamangalam
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 0774844477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does rural class structure influence the political mobilization of farm labourers? This case study documents the process in Kuttanad – a rice-producing region of India noted for its history of rural conflict. Tharamangalam deals fully with the historical and present background of agrarian relations in India, the character and conditions of the labour force, the rise of the Communist labour unions, and the reasons for their current dilemmas. He offeres valuable insights into the methods used by trade unions and the Communist Party to organize at the grass roots level. The book is enriched by the author's familiarity with the region and the language, his own extensive fieldwork, and his use of important primary sources. It will provide political scientists, economists, anthropologists, and sociologists with valuable, hitherto unpublished material.
Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Author: Akram-Lodhi, A. H.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 1788972465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.
The Social History of Agriculture
Author: Christopher Isett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-11-09
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1442209682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities in the wider contexts of markets, states, wars, the environment, population increase, and similar factors, the authors emphasize how larger social and political forces inform decisions and lead to different technological outcomes. Both farmers and elites responded in ways that impeded economic development. Farmers, when able to trade with towns, used the revenue to gain more land and security. Elites used commercial opportunities to accumulate military power and slaves. The book explores these tendencies through rich case studies of ancient China; precolonial South America; early-modern France, England, and Japan; New World slavery; colonial Taiwan; socialist Cuba; and many other periods and places. Readers will understand how the promises and problems of contemporary agriculture are not simply technologically derived but are the outcomes of decisions and choices people have made and continue to make.
The Governor and the King
Author: Arthur M. Wright Jr.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-04-16
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1532649959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Fourth Gospel is a political document. Although it has often been interpreted primarily as a "spiritual gospel," it has much to offer readers engaged in the difficult task of negotiating life lived under the dominion of empire, whether in the first or twenty-first century. This book gives careful attention to the political dimensions of the Gospel's Passion Narrative, including the arrest scene (18:1-12), the Roman show trial (18:28--19:16), and the crucifixion and burial of Jesus (19:16-40). It employs James C. Scott's model of hidden transcripts and examines the Fourth Gospel's use of irony as it seeks to understand the political dimensions of the Fourth Gospel and its relationship to the Roman Empire. In this book, Wright argues that the Passion Narrative displays part of a Johannine hidden transcript that resists, contests, and at times mimics elements of Roman imperial power. The Gospel mocks the representatives of Rome, including Pilate, the Roman soldiers, and the Jewish authorities, eroding confidence in the empire and its agents. It also subverts Roman imperial claims of dominance, authority, and power. As such, the Fourth Gospel fosters an alternative worldview and community, one centered on faith in the sovereignty of Jesus and Israel's God.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime
Author: Professor Anthony Walsh
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-01-28
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1409494705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work spans multiple levels of analysis and thus multiple disciplines, offering an essential overview of the current state of research in the field. The authors are experts in a variety of disciplines (sociology, psychology, biology, criminal justice, and neuroscience), but they all have in common a strong interest in criminal behaviour. This unique book is essential and accessible reading for all students and scholars in the field.
