Peasants and Globalization: Political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question

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ISBN: 9780415446297 | 0415446295
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/22/2008

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This book explores the historical and contemporary process of agrarian transformation in developing countries and its impact upon peasant livelihoods, examining contemporary processes of rural change through a historically-informed analytical lens.

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List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. x
List of abbreviations and acronyms	p. xii
Peasant Livelihoods and the Agrarian Question	p. 1
The agrarian question: peasants and rural change	p. 3
Historical Perspectives on Agrarian Change	p. 35
Peasants and the market imperative: the origins of capitalism	p. 37
The landlord class, peasant differentiation, class struggle and the transition to capitalism: England, France and Prussia compared	p. 57
Nineteenth century imperialism and structural transformation in colonized countries	p. 83
The invisible hand and the visible foot: peasants, dispossession and globalization	p. 111
Peasant struggles for land and agrarian reform in Latin America	p. 148
Contemporary Perspectives on Agrarian Change	p. 167
The globalization of manufacturing production: Warrenite fantasies and uneven and unequal realities	p. 169
Gender justice, land and the agrarian question in Southern Africa	p. 190
The political economy of land and the agrarian question in an era of neoliberal globalization	p. 214
Agrarian questions from transition to globalization	p. 239
The Southern question: agrarian questions of labour and capital	p. 262
Food sovereignty, social reproduction and the agrarian question	p. 288
The Agrarian Question, Past and Present	p. 313
Neoliberal globalization, the traits of rural accumulation and rural politics: the agrarian question in the twenty-first century	p. 315
Index	p. 339
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Peasants and Globalization: Political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question

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