Agrarian Studies : Synthetic Work at the

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 Program in Agrarian Studies at yale University, encompass various disciplines, diverse historical periods, and several regions of the world. The contributors' fresh analyses will broaden the perspectives of readers with interests as wide-ranging as rural sociology, environmentalism, political science, history, anthropology, economics, and art history.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(10)

James C. Scott

PART I. STATE FORMATION AND PEASANT HISTORIES

Some Ideological Aspects of the Articulation between Kin and Tribute: State Formation, Military System, and Social Life in Hesse-Cassel, 1688--1815

11

(33)

Peter Taylor

Dark Events and Lynching Scenes in the Collective Memory: A Dispossession Narrative about Austria's Descent into Holocaust

44

(25)

Hermann Rebel

PART II. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND THE PEASANT EXPERIENCE

Agrarian Issues during the French Revolution, 1787--1799

69

(17)

Peter Jones

Imagining the Harvest in Early Modern Europe

86

(55)

Liana Vardi

PART III. AGRARIAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES: CASE STUDIES FROM SOUTH ASIA

Naturae Ferae: Wild Animals in South Asia and the Standard Environmental Narrative

141

(45)

Paul Greenough

Disease, Resistance, and India's Ecological Frontier, 1770--1947

186

(20)

David Arnold

Subalterns and Others in the Agrarian History of South Asia

206

(29)

David Ludden

PART IV. ECONOMIC HISTORIES, LOCAL MARKETS, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Contesting the ``Great Transformation'': Local Struggles with the Market in South India

235

(29)

Ronald J. Herring

Policies for Sustainable Development

264

(19)

Herman E. Daly

Weaving and Surviving in Laichingen, 1650--1900: Micro-History as History and as Research Experience

283

(14)

Hans Medick

List of Contributors

297

(4)

Index

301

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