Agrarian studies [electronic resource] : synthetic work at the cutting edge / edited by James C. Scott and Nina Bhatt.
This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their originality and synthesis from the colloquia of the Programme in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, encompass various disciplines, diverse historical pe...
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2001.
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| Series: | Yale agrarian studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Some ideological aspects of the articulation between kin and tribute : state formation, military system, and social life in Hesse-Cassel, 1688-1815 / Peter Taylor
- Dark events and lynching scenes in the collective memory : a dispossession narrative about Austria's descent into Holocaust / Hermann Rebel
- Agrarian issues during the French Revolution, 1787-1799 / Peter Jones
- Imagining the harvest in early modern Europe / Liana Vardi
- Naturae ferae : wild animals in South Asia and the standard environmental narrative / Paul Greenough
- Disease, resistance, and India's ecological frontier, 1770-1947 / David Arnold
- Subalterns and others in the agrarian history of South Asia / David Ludden
- Contesting the "great transformation" : local struggles with the market in south India / Ronald J. Herring
- Policies for sustainable development / Herman E. Daly
- Weaving and surviving in Laichingen, 1650-1900 : micro-history as history and as research experience / Hans Medick.