E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Migdal Peasants, Politics and Revolution
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6876-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Pressures Toward Political and Social Change in the Third World
E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6876-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
During the last quarter century, peasant participation in politics has increased markedly in parts of Latin America and Asia. Why the poor and vulnerable peasant population has chosen to leave the confines of the village for political activity and at times for sustained revolution is the question this book explores.
The author draws on informal interviews and observation of peasants in Mexico and India and on fifty-one community studies of peasants in Asia and Latin America compiled by ethnographers in the last forty years. He suggests that severe economic crises have driven peasants to roles in the larger economy outside the village, where they are initially attracted to politics by material incentives.
Originally published in 1975.
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Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
I. Introduction: Why Peasants Change, pg. 1
II. Lord and Peasant, pg. 33
III. The Freeholding Village, pg. 46
IV. Mechanisms of Survival, pg. 60
V. Villages under Stress, pg. 87
VI. Relieving the Stress, pg. 112
VII. Who Risks Change?, pg. 133
VIII. Social Structure and Social Institutions, pg. 156
IX. The New Political Community, pg. 193
X. Peasant Revolution, pg. 226
XI. Conclusion: The Shrinking World, pg. 257
Appendix A. The Scale of External Relations, pg. 267
Appendix B. A List of the Communities Used, pg. 269
Bibliography, pg. 275
Index, pg. 297
