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1	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men more books like this by James Agee, Walker Evans add to wishlist This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.21! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Throwed Away: Failures of Progress in Eastern North Carolina more books like this by Linda Flowers add to wishlist see all copies from $3.01! new only from $23.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Let Us Now Praise Famous more books like this by Agee add to wishlist see all copies from $2.54! new only from $29.67! \| first editions
4	The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War more books like this by Catherine Besteman (Editor), Lee Cassanelli (Editor) add to wishlist Despite massive international intervention, Somalia remains a land violently divided by class and cultural conflicts. Explanations for the civil war have generally focused on personalities, clan affiliations or Cold War competition, but this study examines issues of land and resources as important ingredients in Somali politics, and in the events ... see all copies from $19.47! new only from $19.47! \| first editions
5	The Economic Theory of Agricultural Land Tenure more books like this by J M Currie add to wishlist Originally published in 1981, Dr Currie's main emphasis in this book is on the economic theory of agricultural land tenure, but he also makes extensive reference to the historical development of land tenure in England. After consideration of the history of economic thought on this important topic, he employs an essentially neo-classical approach, ... see all copies from $29.99! new only from $98.43! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Farm Tenancy & the Census in Antebellum Georgia more books like this by Frederick A. Bode, Donald E. Ginter add to wishlist Historians of the nineteenth-century rural South have long distinguished the antebellum agricultural system of plantations and gang-style slave labor from the family tenancy system that is thought to have developed only after the Civil War. In "Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia," however, Frederick Bode and Donald Ginter ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $18.25! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Peasant Economic Development Within the English Manorial System more books like this by J A Raftis add to wishlist Challenging a 100-year tradition that English peasants were serfs at the disposal of their lord, it is argued in this text that tenants were in considerable control of the manorial regime and were able to take advantage of what most scholars have considered to be exploitive and negative aspects of the medieval agricultural economy. Offering a ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $65.62! \| first editions
8	Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire more books like this by Dennis P Kehoe add to wishlist A bold application of economic theory to help provide an understanding of the role that law played in the development of the Roman economy see all copies from $75.00! new only from $75.00! \| first editions
9	The Collapse of Cotton Tenancy: Summary of Field Studies & Statistical Surveys, 1933-35, more books like this by Charles S. Johnson, Will Winton Alexander, Edwin R. Embree add to wishlist see all copies from $4.18! first editions
10	Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914 more books like this by Kyle Grant Wilkison add to wishlist As the nineteenth century ended in Hunt County, Texas, a way of life was dying. The tightly knit, fiercely independent society of the yeomen farmers - "plain folk," as historians have often dubbed them - was being swallowed up by the rising tide of a rapidly changing, cotton-based economy. A social network based on family, religion, and community ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $40.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Gender, Class, and Rural Transition: Agribusiness and the Food Crisis in Senegal more books like this by Maureen Mackintosh add to wishlist see all copies from $2.98! first editions
12	Let Us Now Praise more books like this by James Agee, Walker Evans add to wishlist This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13	The Land is Mine: From Tenancy to Family Farm Ownership, more books like this by Paul V. Maris add to wishlist see all copies from $12.99! first editions \| SVS
14	The Story of Crofting in Scotland more books like this by Douglas Willis add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
15	Farm Lease Guide more books like this by Robert M. Dunaway, Alvin Morrow add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
16	Land, food, and people. more books like this by Food and Agriculture Organization add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
17	Agrarian Reform Under State Capitalism in Algeria more books like this by Karen Pfeifer add to wishlist see all copies from $7.46! new only from $27.30! \| first editions
18	The Unpromised Land: Agrarian Reform and Conflict Worldwide more books like this by Demetrios Christodoulou add to wishlist see all copies from $14.99! first editions
19	Landlord and Labor in Late Imperial China: Case Studies from Shandong more books like this by Endymion Wilkinson, Su Ching, Luo Lun add to wishlist An unusual and provocative study on the cause and effects of population growth and economic and social change in Shandong between 1650 and 1900. see all copies from $22.00! first editions
20	The Theory of Share Tenancy: With Special Application to Asian Agriculture and the First Phase of Taiwan Land Reform more books like this by Steven Cheung add to wishlist see all copies from $63.00! first editions
21	Transforming Traditionally: Land and Labor Use in Agriculture in Asia and Africa more books like this by Kusum Nair add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! first editions
22	Landlord and peasant in Persia: a study of land tenure and land revenue administration more books like this by Ann K S Lambton add to wishlist This is a study of land tenure and rural organization in Persia before the land reforms of 1962-6. The work provides an outline of the history of land tenure and land revenue administration from Islamic times down to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in 1906 which brought an end to the medieval system of land tenure. It also examines the ... see all copies from $50.00! first editions
23	On Being a Tenant Farmer more books like this by Henry Fell add to wishlist see all copies from $18.05!
24	Owners and Occupiers: Changes in Rural Society in South-West Scotland Before 1914 more books like this by R H Campbell add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! new only from $47.78! \| first editions
25	Poverty in the Land of Plenty more books like this by Gregory A Stiverson add to wishlist see all copies from $11.65! first editions

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