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1	Rebellion of the Hanged more books like this by B Traven add to wishlist A novel from this unknown though possibly German author, which focuses on an impoverished Mexican farmer who becomes a debt slave just as the storm clouds of revolution gather, and as the Indians begin to reclaim their rights. From the author of TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.45! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Resistance, Rebellion Andean World more books like this by Steve J Stern (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.59! new only from $28.95! \| first editions
3	Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century more books like this by Eric R. Wolf add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	March to the montería more books like this by B. Traven add to wishlist The third title in the series of 'jungle' novels written by the mysterious author B. Traven whose identity is still unknown. A forced march of labourers through the Mexican jungle eventually leads to resentment and open violence. From the author of THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, TROZAS and THE REBELLION OF THE HANGED. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| first editions \| SVS
5	From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940 more books like this by John Tutino add to wishlist "Although From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico pursues a variety of engaging issues, it is firmly organized around a central question: Why did Father Miguel Hidalgo's massive peasant uprising of 1810 fail to transform colonial society and why, by contrast, did the several agrarian movements of 1910 contribute fundamentally to a social ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $26.00! \| first editions
6	Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 more books like this by Steven Justice add to wishlist In this account of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment, but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule. Focusing on six brief, ... see all copies from $12.89! new only from $24.47! \| first editions \| SVS
7	We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency more books like this by Sinclair Thomson add to wishlist The great Andean insurrection has received scant attention by historians of the "Age of Revolution", but in this book Sinclair Thompson reveals the connections between ongoing local struggles over Indian community government and a larger anticolonial movement. see all copies from $16.10! new only from $19.71! \| SVS
8	Understanding Peasant China: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Social Science more books like this by Daniel Little add to wishlist In this innovative look at several current debates in China studies, Daniel Little investigates the merits of social scientists' hypotheses, reasoning, and explanations. Little focuses on four topics: the relative importance of individual rationality and community values in explaining traditional peasant behavior; the role of marketing and ... see all copies from $4.45! new only from $36.34! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China: Fang Zhimin and the Origin of a Revolutionary Movement in the Xinjiang Region more books like this by Kamal Sheel add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
10	Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan more books like this by Stephen Vlastos add to wishlist The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugawa period. Stephen Vlastos's examination of the ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $28.12! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories more books like this by Anne Walthall (Editor) add to wishlist Combining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $23.49! \| first editions
12	Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 more books like this by Elizabeth J Perry add to wishlist see all copies from $9.94! new only from $60.00! \| first editions
13 view cover	Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland more books like this by C H E Philpin add to wishlist The essays in this collection focus on the nature of popular protest and agrarian unrest and the development of nationalism in modern Ireland. Some are concerned with particular manifestations of protest - Houghers, Rightboys, Defenders, Ribbonmen, the Land War, Sinn Fein. Others treat more general themes - cultural identity as expressed in Gaelic ... see all copies from $42.88! new only from $54.70! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821 more books like this by Eric Van Young add to wishlist Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century. This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, the struggle was also an internal war pitting ... see all copies from $21.99! new only from $25.71! \| first editions
15	Peasant uprisings in seventeenth-century France, Russia and China more books like this by Roland Mousnier add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 more books like this by John Severs, Rodney Hilton add to wishlist Rodney Hilton's account of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 remains the classic authoritative text on the 'English Rising'. Hilton views the revolt in the context of a general European pattern of class conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere unrelated outbreaks of violence but had their roots ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $31.27! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village more books like this by Ralph A Thaxton, Jr. add to wishlist This book documents how China's rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China's socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and coercion of ... see all copies from $22.81! new only from $24.31!
18 view cover	Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha add to wishlist The historiography of peasant insurgency has hitherto been a record of the colonial administration's effort to deal with insurgents. Guha's work adopts the peasant's viewpoint and studies "the peasant rebel's awareness of his own world and his will to change it". see all copies from $10.00! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia more books like this by John Young add to wishlist In the wake of the overthrow of the Haile-Selassie regime in Ethiopia in 1974 and the coming to power of the military, a number of opposition forces launched insurrections. But only one movement, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) triumphed, liberating Tigray in 1989, and in an ethnic-based coalition which it dominated, assuming state ... see all copies from $65.84! new only from $79.95!
20	Peasant revolts in China, 1840-1949 more books like this by Jean Chesneaux add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49! new only from $38.75! \| first editions
21 view cover	Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 more books like this by Xiaorong Han add to wishlist Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. ... see all copies from $12.65! new only from $32.96! \| SVS
22	Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru more books like this by Hugo Blanco add to wishlist The land occupations and uprisings by peasants in the early 1960s, recounted by a central leader of the struggle in Peru. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.07! \| signed copies
23 view cover	Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the Russian Civil War more books like this by Erik C Landis add to wishlist Beginning in the fall of 1920, Aleksandr Antonov led an insurgency that became the largest armed peasant revolt against the Soviets during the civil war. Yet by the summer of 1921, the revolt had been crushed, and popular support for the movement had all but disappeared. Until now, details of this conflict have remained hidden. Erik Landis mines ... see all copies from $36.75! new only from $38.50! \| first editions
24 view cover	Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala more books like this by Jim Handy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25	Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950 more books like this by Kathryn Bernhardt add to wishlist Throughout China's long imperial history, the political-economic system was supported mainly by the rents and taxes collected from the peasantry. The survival of the system depended on orderly relations between landlords and tenants and between the state and landowners. In the century before the Communist triumph in 1949, both sets of relations ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $65.95!

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