seeks to elaborate further the authors’ approach to the agrarian question, utilising a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South. focuses on the rise of capitalism in the global South within the context of imperial subordination to the global North, and the place of the peasantry in shaping and resisting these dynamics. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of peasant studies, rural politics, agrarian studies, development and political ecology.

Highly topical, providing a comprehensive and global overview of peasant mobilizations in the current political economic and ecological context. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the publication of Eric Wolf's Peasant Wars in the Twentieth Century it is the first book to undertake a re-assessment of Wolf's work in the context of 'new world order'. Using case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America and Europe, it gives a global view, not only of counties where peasant wars have occurred or are currently in progress, but also in more developed countries which have experienced changes in the rural economy.