Mass marked paperback. 448pp, in laminated light card covers. 12mo. Covers show a little wear at edges and are mildly discoloured, slightly sunned over the spine. A little page toning internally, with the first leaf having a short corner crease else clean, neat and tight.
A selection of essays and key documents regarding peasants and peasants societies around the world, divided into five thematic sections - The Social Structure of Peasantry; The Peasantry as an Economy; The Peasantry as a Class; the Peasantry as a Culture and The Peasantry as an Object of Policies of the Modern States, with examples drawn from around the world. Specific essays include The Barbarians by Maxim Gorky; Geroid Robinson on Crafts an Trades Among the Russian Peasantry; Rene Dumont on Agriculture as Man's Transformation of the Rural Environment and Harvey Franklin on The Worker Peasant in Europe (and many more).
