{"product_id":"peasants-in-world-history-hardback","title":"Peasants in World History - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first world history of peasants. \u003ci\u003ePeasants in World History \u003c\/i\u003eanalyzes the multiple transformations of peasant life through history by focusing on three primary areas: the organization of peasant societies, their integration within wider societal structures, and the changing connections between local, regional and global processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeasants have been a vital component in human history over the last 10,000 years, with nearly one-third of the world’s population still living a peasant lifestyle today. Their role as rural producers of ever-new surpluses instigated complex and often-opposing processes of social and spatial change throughout the world. Eric Vanhaute frames this social change in a story of evolving peasant frontiers. These frontiers provide a global comparative-historical lens to look at the social, economic and ecological changes within village-systems, agrarian empires and global capitalism. Bringing the story of the peasantry up through the modern period and looking to the future, the author offers a succinct overview with students in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is recommended reading to anyone interested in the history and future of peasantries and is a valuable addition to undergraduate and graduate courses in World History, Global Economic History, Global Studies and Rural Sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45566892409070,"sku":"9780415740937","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415740937.jpg?v=1720699952","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/peasants-in-world-history-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}