Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Zarobić na duszne zbawienie	Tomasz Wiślicz	TO EARN HEAVENLY SALVATION<br> PEASANT RELIGION IN LITTLE POLAND FROM THE MID-16TH TO THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY<br><br> The book offers a proposal of the complex, model outlook on the religious c…	OL11775272W
The life of a simple man	Emile Guillaumin	"In order to 'show the gents of Moulins, of Paris and elsewhere, just what a sharecropper's life is like,' Emile Guillaumin, under the guise of fiction, wrote this story of 'Tiennon,' a French peasan…	OL1451025W
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
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	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
Agrarian radicalism in South India	Marshall M. Bouton	An account of agrarian politics in Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu.	OL17978033W
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	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
Las Sociedades rurales hoy	Jorge Zepeda Patterson	"Contains 34 contributions by many distinguished social scientists including Barkin, A. Bartra, Paré, Warman, Oswald, Esteva, Gordillo, and De la Peña. Papers were presented at a 1987 interdiscipli…	OL18265174W
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	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
Left movement and agrarian relations, 1920-1995	P. Gopinadhan Pillai	On agricultural land reform due to leftist movement in Kerala; also includes socioeconomic profile of peasantry in Kerala; a study.	OL2311309W
Gerencias campesinas en Venezuela	Samuel Hurtado S.	"Quantitative study of rural household strategies and management is based on a survey of 546 (out of a total of 1,953) households in 22 communities. This theoretically and methodologically sophistica…	OL2381252W
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
The Punjab peasant in prosperity and debt	Darling, Malcolm Sir	On land tenure and economic conditions in Punjab.	OL2604471W
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	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
Dobry	Monica Shannon	Dobry is a book by Monica Shannon first published in 1934 that won the Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to American literature for children in 1935. Bulgarian-born sculptor Atanas Ka…	OL4303388W
Peasants on the edge	William P. Mitchell	x, 264 p. : 24 cm	OL4479072W
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