Peasants, Politics and Revolution : : Pressures Toward Political and Social Change in the Third World / / Joel S. Migdal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Migdal, Joel S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1789
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

During the last quarter century, peasant participation in politics has increased markedly in parts of Latin America and Asia. Why the poor and vulnerable peasant population has chosen to leave the confines of the village for political activity and at times for sustained revolution is the question this book explores. The author draws on informal interviews and observation of peasants in Mexico and India and on fifty-one community studies of peasants in Asia and Latin America compiled by ethnographers in the last forty years. He suggests that severe economic crises have driven peasants to roles in the larger economy outside the village, where they are initially attracted to politics by material incentives.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction: Why Peasants Change -- PART ONE. The Historical Domination of Inward-Oriented Forces -- II. Lord and Peasant -- III. The Freeholding Village -- IV. Mechanisms of Survival -- PART TWO. The Fulcrum Shifts: The Challenge of Outward-Oriented Forces -- V. Villages under Stress -- VI. Relieving the Stress -- PART THREE. The Triumph of Outward-Oriented Forces -- VII. Who Risks Change? -- VIII. Social Structure and Social Institutions -- PART FOUR. Politics and Revolution -- IX. The New Political Community -- X. Peasant Revolution -- XI. Conclusion: The Shrinking World -- Appendix A. The Scale of External Relations -- Appendix B. A List of the Communities Used -- Bibliography -- Index