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This is the first world history of peasants. Peasants in World
History analyzes 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. Peasants 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. This 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.
This is the first world history of peasants. Peasants in World
History analyzes 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. Peasants 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. This 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.
World History: An Introduction provides readers with the knowledge
and tools necessary to understand the global historical perspective
and how it can be used to shed light on both our past and our
present. A concise and original guide to the concepts, methods,
debates and contents of world history, it combines a thematic
approach with a clear and ambitious focus. Each chapter traces
connections with the past and the present to explore major
questions in world history: How did humans evolve from an
endangered species to the most successful of them all? How has
nature shaped human history? How did agricultural societies push
human history in a new direction? How has humankind organized
itself in ever more complex administrative systems? How have we
developed new religious and cultural patterns? How have the paths
of 'The West' and 'The Rest' diverged over the last five centuries?
How, at the same time, has the world become more interconnected and
"globalized"? How is this world characterized by growing gaps in
wealth, poverty and inequality? Sharp and accessible, Eric
Vanhaute's introduction to this exciting field demonstrates that
world history is more of a perspective than a single
all-encompassing narrative: an instructive new way of seeing,
thinking and doing. It is an essential resource for students of
history in a global context.
World History: An Introduction provides readers with the knowledge
and tools necessary to understand the global historical perspective
and how it can be used to shed light on both our past and our
present. A concise and original guide to the concepts, methods,
debates and contents of world history, it combines a thematic
approach with a clear and ambitious focus. Each chapter traces
connections with the past and the present to explore major
questions in world history: How did humans evolve from an
endangered species to the most successful of them all? How has
nature shaped human history? How did agricultural societies push
human history in a new direction? How has humankind organized
itself in ever more complex administrative systems? How have we
developed new religious and cultural patterns? How have the paths
of 'The West' and 'The Rest' diverged over the last five centuries?
How, at the same time, has the world become more interconnected and
"globalized"? How is this world characterized by growing gaps in
wealth, poverty and inequality? Sharp and accessible, Eric
Vanhaute's introduction to this exciting field demonstrates that
world history is more of a perspective than a single
all-encompassing narrative: an instructive new way of seeing,
thinking and doing. It is an essential resource for students of
history in a global context.
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