Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf

Name: Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf
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Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies

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Earthscan Food and Agriculture

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Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf’s celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path-breaking Europe and the People Without History, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf’s contribution to the study of the peasantry and its relationship to capitalism, the state, and imperialism. This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of Wolf’s premises, methodology, and understanding of the peasantry, and its relationship to the rise of capitalism and the modern state. The authors analyse Wolf’s theoretical approach and, by building on his work in Europe and the People Without History especially, argue their own position concerning the dynamics of the peasantry in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism. Further, the text aims to answer the agrarian question more widely, focusing on agrarian society and the political role of the peasantry in contested transitions to capitalism and to modes beyond capitalism. This requires, the authors argue, an analysis of class struggle and of the resources, material and discursive, that different classes can bring to bear on this struggle. Based on well-founded theoretical premises, the book focuses on the contested rise of capitalism in the global North, the development of core–periphery relations in the global political economy, and the place of the peasantry in these dynamics. The book presents case studies of transitions to agrarian capitalism in the British Isles, France, Germany, Japan, and the USA. The book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of peasant studies, rural politics, agrarian studies, development, and political ecology.

Author Biography:

Mark Tilzey is an Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK. Fraser Sugden is an Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, UK. David Seddon is a former Professor of Politics and Sociology, Department of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK.

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August 30th, 2023

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Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

232

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Earthscan Food and Agriculture

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9781138596405

Product ID

36571142

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