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Nandigram Nandigram People's Tribunal on Nandigram (2007 Nandīgrām, India, and Calcutta, India),People's Tribunal on Nandigram (2007 Nandīgrām, India, and Calcutta, India) Contribued articles presented at the tribunal, and report on the effects of globalization and commercialization of agricultural lands, on peasantry in Nandīgrām, place situated in the state of West… OL11947914W
Il formaggio e i vermi Il formaggio e i vermi Carlo Ginzburg,John Tedeschi,Anne C. Tedeschi Offers a study of culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. This bo… OL14872792W
Rivalry and brotherhood Rivalry and brotherhood Dipankar Gupta A study with particular reference to the Bharatiya Kisan Union, a peasant movement, and the Jat farmers of western Uttar Pradesh. OL15318259W
The institutional framework of Russian serfdom The institutional framework of Russian serfdom T. K. Dennison "Russian rural history has long been based on a "peasant myth" which originated with nineteenth-century Romantics and is still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows ho… OL16189024W
Rebellion and Revolt Rebellion and Revolt Gary Jeffrey,Terry Riley The heroes of rebellion in medieval England are featured in three historic stories told in graphic novel format: William Wallace and his Scottish rebels take on English knights at Stirling Bridge in… OL17903125W
Novels (Kane & Abel / Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less / Prodigal Daughter / Quiver Full of Arrow… Novels (Kane & Abel / Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less / Prodigal Daughter / Quiver Full of Arrow… Jeffrey Archer Contains: - [Kane & Abel](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1807144W?edition=kaneabel0000arch_f1y9) - The Prodigal Daughter - Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less - A Quiver Full of Arrows OL1807127W
Kane & Abel Kane & Abel Jeffrey Archer Kane and Abel is a 1979 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer. Released in the United Kingdom in 1979 and in the United States in February 1980, the book was an international success. It reached No.… OL1807144W
Peasant movement in North East India, 1946-1950 Peasant movement in North East India, 1946-1950 Girban Ranjan Biswas On the Tebhaga Movement specially in Bengal and Assam; a study. OL18223059W
Las rondas campesinas y la derrota de Sendero Luminoso Las rondas campesinas y la derrota de Sendero Luminoso Carlos Iván Degregori "Detailed, fieldwork-based analysis of Shining Path and its defeat in the Ayacucho region. Highlights the importance of guerrilla insensitivity to local realities and resulting peasant alienation, as… OL18279279W
Credit, markets, and the agrarian economy of colonial India Credit, markets, and the agrarian economy of colonial India Sugata Bose Contributed articles. OL18286560W
Dalits and peasants Dalits and peasants Ashish Ghosh Contributed papers presented at 6th and 7th annual colloguia with special reference to India. OL18299917W
Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914 Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914 Tony Judt xiv, 370 pages : 24 cm OL1894812W
Specters of revolution Specters of revolution Alexander Aviña "Specters of Revolution examines the development of two guerrilla insurgencies led by schoolteachers in Mexico during the 1960s. Relying upon recently declassified documents and oral histories, it ch… OL19979958W
Beyond the giant mountains Beyond the giant mountains Wenig, Adolf A collection of folk tales in which cunning peasants trick the devil, who is trying to deceive them for his own gain. OL2059369W
A man-made disaster A man-made disaster Lan Ruo This book records what a 19-year-old girl exactly experienced as a birth control taskforce member in the years 1975-1976. Focusing on a grassroots level birth control taskforce, the author introduces… OL24198795W
From Peasants to Farmers From Peasants to Farmers Jon Gjerde This book "examines a transatlantic chain migration from Balestrand, a Norwegian fjord district, to its daughter settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West. The book considers the … OL3274765W
The end of the peasantry The end of the peasantry Anthony W. Pereira "Study of emerging rural labor politics in the sugar zone of Pernambuco under military rule shows how popular movements contribute to both democratization and social change. Work is well-researched, … OL3347401W
Skulduggery Skulduggery Paul Rushworth-Brown A story of love and religious tolerance in 17th-century England. 'The story is a well-painted image of how 'copyholders' or peasants would have lived at this time, but that is only the backdrop to a … OL34305646W
Setting the Virgin on Fire Setting the Virgin on Fire Marjorie Becker "Provides convincing revision of the 'myth of secular redemption' surrounding Lázaro Cárdenas and his program of land distribution to the campesinos. Operating on a 'stripped-down image of land-hun… OL3515843W
Situationsdefinition und Situationsanalyse der landlosen und landarmen Agrarbevölkerung in einem K… Situationsdefinition und Situationsanalyse der landlosen und landarmen Agrarbevölkerung in einem K… Detlef Schwefel Mit Befragungen und thematischen Apperzeptionstests wird das Weltbild ecuadorianischer Siedler beschrieben und analysiert. Es zeigt sich, daß Gesundheit und Erziehung einen besonderen Stellenwert bei… OL4997869W
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