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Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America » Read Now
by Robert P. Weller, Scott E. Guggenheim. 218 pgs.

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The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy » Read Now
by Neil Harvey. 312 pgs.

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Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics » Read Now
by Daniel Nugent. 408 pgs.

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Agrarian Rebellion and Defense of Community: Meaning and Collective Violence in Late Colonial and Independence-Era Mexico, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Eric Van Young. 25 pgs.

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A Peasant Rebellion in Stalin's Russia: The Pitelinskii Uprising, Riazan 1930, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Tracy McDonald. 21 pgs.

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Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance » Read Now
by Lynne Viola. 312 pgs.

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Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant...
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Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry.
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Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 » Read Now
by Elizabeth J. Perry. 344 pgs.

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The Taiping Peasant Revolt, in Monthly Review » Read Now
by John Newsinger. 9 pgs.

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Peasant Protest & Social Change in Colonial Korea » Read Now
by Gi-Wook Shin. 252 pgs.

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Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India » Read Now
by Ranajit Guha. 384 pgs.

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This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha -- intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group -- describes from the peasants' viewpoint the relations of...
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This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha -- intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group -- describes from the peasants' viewpoint the relations of dominance and subordination in rural India from 1783 to 1900.
Challenging the idea that peasants were powerless agents who rebelled blindly against British imperialist oppression and local landlord exploitation, Guha emphasizes their awareness and will to effect political change. He suggests that the rebellions represented the birth of a theoretical consciousness and asserts that India's long subaltern tradition lent power to the landmark insurgence led by Mahatma Gandhi. Yet as long as landlord authority remains dominant in a ruling culture, Guha claims, all mass struggles will tend to model themselves after the unfinished projects documented in this book.
Students and scholars will welcome this paperbackedition of,Guha's 1983 original, which was distributed on a limited scale in the United States. It will influence new generations studying colonialism, post-colonialism, subaltern studies, historiography, anthropology, and Indian, Asian, and Latin American history.
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A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328 » Read Now
by William H. TeBrake. 192 pgs.

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Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434 » Read Now
by Samuel K. Cohn Jr. 308 pgs.

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This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance. It examines the Florentine state from its mountainous periphery, where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. From a tributary state, which treated its surrounding countryside as...
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This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance. It examines the Florentine state from its mountainous periphery, where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. From a tributary state, which treated its surrounding countryside as little more than a tax reservoir and a buffer against foreign invaders, Florence began to see its own self-interest as intertwined with that of its region and its rural subjects--a change brought about by widespread and successful peasant uprisings, hitherto unrecorded by historians.
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Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 » Read Now
by Rodney Hilton. 240 pgs.

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Rodney Hilton's account of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 remains the classic authoritative text on the 'English Rising'.Hilton views the revolt in the context of a genral European pattern of class conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere...
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Rodney Hilton's account of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 remains the classic authoritative text on the 'English Rising'.Hilton views the revolt in the context of a genral European pattern of class conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere unrelated outbreaks of violence but had their roots in common economic and political conditions and in a recurring conflict of interest between peasants and landowners.Now with a new introduction by Christopher Dyer, this survey will remain the leading source for students of medieval English peasantry.
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The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America » Read Now
by Lawrence G. Goodwyn. 384 pgs.

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