Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative PerspectiveCornell University Press, 1991 - 277 pages "As an extended essay on an important theme of comparative history, this is an impressive book. . . . By highlighting the irreducible particularities of rural communities in the past, Magagna has written a book deeply informed by historical consciousness as well as contemporary social theory."--Journal of Social History |
Contents
Class Community and the Anomaly | 1 |
The Forces of Constraint and Community Rebellion | 25 |
The Agrarian Histories of the West | 48 |
The English Model and the Compromise of Community | 85 |
France and the Politics of Controlled Community 15001900 | 127 |
Spain and the Logic of Community Cohesion 18001939 | 162 |
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Agrarian agricultural anarchism Anarchists Andalusia aristocratic domination aristocratic power bureaucratic California Press Cambridge University Press Carlism Charles Tilly Chicago cohesion collective violence commercialization community institutions community of grain conflict context cooperation countryside Culture Dorothy Atkinson E. P. Thompson early modern economic elite power enclosure rioting England English estates Europe example farming feudal forces forms French Revolution hierarchy households Ibid important insurrection Japanese Kett's Kett's Rebellion Ladurie logic Mâconnais Malefakis manor lords manorial Medieval networks nities ordinary rural Oxford parish Peasant Revolution political popular communities practices Princeton University Princeton University Press problem property rights Protest radical rebels regime regions representative violence revolutionary ritual rules rural communities rural history rural rebellion rural societies Russian Land Commune Russian serfdom Scheiner serfdom social southern Spain Spain Spanish Stanford Stolypin reforms struggle Studies supralocal territorial Thirsk tion Tokugawa period traditional tsarist Unfree Labor University of California uprisings