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1	Kane & Abel more books like this by Jeffrey Archer add to wishlist William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant, are two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Life in a Medieval Village more books like this by Frances Gies add to wishlist A lively, detailed picture of village life in the Middle Ages by the authors of Life in a Medieval CityandLife in a Medieval Castle. "A good general introduction to the history of this period."--Los Angeles Times see all copies from $2.19! new only from $6.86! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England more books like this by Barbara A Hanawalt add to wishlist Using a variety of medieval sources, notably records of coroners' inquests, the author vividly recreates the family life of the English peasant. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $13.58! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance more books like this by Professor James C Scott add to wishlist see all copies from $14.38! new only from $20.69! \| SVS
5	Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age more books like this by Sebastiao Salgado add to wishlist More than those of any living photographer, Sebastiao Salgado's images of the world's poor stand as icons of the human condition. His transforming photographs bestow dignity on the most isolated and neglected, from refugees in the famine-stricken Sahel, to the men who swarm the gold mines of Brazil. Now Saigado goes beyond icons to bring us a ... see all copies from $47.98! new only from $68.90! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Enormous Turnip more books like this by Ladybird Books (Editor) add to wishlist Based on the traditional folk tale "The Enormous Turnip", this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favorite in every home. See what happens when a turnip grows so big, it just won't budge! Part of the Ladybird "First Favourite Tales" series, this hardback book contains lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. It is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.83!
7	The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements more books like this by Ms. Lynne Viola add to wishlist One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag. Solzhenitsyn barely touched upon this brutal episode in his magisterial Gulag Archipelago and subsequent writers passed over the subject in silence. Now, with the opening of Soviet ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $14.27!
8	Pedro Paramo y El Llano En Llamas more books like this by Juan Rulfo add to wishlist Juan Preciado made a promise to his mother, who is dying, that he would go to her birthplace and look for his father, Pedro Paramo. She remembers a village, robust and full of life, that no longer exists--Comala is a decaying town, surrounded by mirages. Pedro Paramo may or may not be alive; he is described by one traveler as "living bile," who ... see all copies from $6.06! new only from $37.65!
9	The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia more books like this by Professor James C Scott add to wishlist see all copies from $10.78! new only from $19.34! \| SVS
10	Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 more books like this by Eugen Joseph Weber add to wishlist see all copies from $21.00! new only from $29.46! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Mother more books like this by Pearl S. Buck add to wishlist A novel which tells the story of a woman who, when her husband leaves her, faces unhappiness, poverty and tragedy with matchless courage. But she also comes to realize that it is she who needs the role of mother more than she wants to be a woman. The author has won the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants more books like this by Guidi Chen add to wishlist This is an expose of the inequality and injustice experienced by 900 million Chinese peasants, as told through a series of dramatic personal narratives that describe the arbitrary violence and powerlessness in the face of colossal corruption and grinding poverty. The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Rightful Resistance in Rural China more books like this by Kevin J O'Brien, Lianjiang Li add to wishlist How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the central government to try to ... see all copies from $20.48! new only from $20.48! \| SVS
14 view cover	Caribbean Transformations more books like this by Sidney Mintz add to wishlist Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Lao Peasants Under Socialism more books like this by Grant Evans add to wishlist see all copies from $4.95! new only from $4.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	Memoirs of a Breton Peasant more books like this by Jean-Marie Deguignet, Linda Asher (Translator) add to wishlist A fascinating document of 19th-century history, this reads like an adventure novel and bristles with the curiosity and vigor of an alert, opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. see all copies from $6.89! new only from $13.05! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400 more books like this by H S Bennett (Preface by) add to wishlist This book gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues and rights, payments, labours and small privileges. The author gives lively details of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $48.20! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective more books like this by Michael Kearnye, Michael Kearney, M.D add to wishlist The concept of peasant has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this path-breaking book, ... see all copies from $7.55! new only from $43.85! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Rational Peasant more books like this by Samuel L Popkin add to wishlist Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy view of peasant behavior stands in contrast to the model of a distinctive peasant moral economy in which the village community is primarily responsible for ensuring the welfare of ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $28.62! \| first editions \| SVS
20	The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia more books like this by Wayne S Vucinich (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy more books like this by Richard Hellie add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
22	Peasants more books like this by Eric R Wolf add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.70! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers more books like this by Gabriel Torres add to wishlist Winner of the 'Casa Chata Award' for the Best Book of 1994 (Spanish edition) In charting the paradoxical effects of power and knowledge on the everyday life of subordinate people, this book offers a major rethinking of domination and the agricultural labor process. Challenging the belief that ethnography is theoretically weak, the author provides ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition more books like this by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (Translator) add to wishlist Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00!
25 view cover	Red bread more books like this by Maurice Gerschon Hindus add to wishlist First published in 1931 and long out of print, "Red Bread" is Russian-born journalist Maurice Hindus's account of his return to his native village in 1929-30 to see for himself how Stalin's collectivization campaign was transforming the lives of the peasants among whom he had grown up in prerevolutionary times. This warm and human narrative ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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