Communities of Grain : : Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective / / Victor Magagna.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Magagna, Victor,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

The sources of peasant rebellion, according to Victor Magagna, may be found not in class conflict but in the structure of rural communities. Drawing on local histories of medieval or early modern England, France, and Russia and of Meiji Japan and nineteenth-century Spain, Magagna offers an innovative account of the significance of community institutions and politics in rural societies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Vanishing Peasants: Class, Community, and the Anomaly of Rural Collective Action -- 2. The Forces of Constraint and Community Rebellion -- 3. Between Manor and State: The Agrarian Histories of the West -- 4. The English Model and the Compromise of Community -- 5. France and the Politics of Controlled Community, 1500-1900 -- 6. Spain and the Logic of Community Cohesion, 1800-1939 -- 7. Russia and the Secession of Community, 1800-1930 -- 8. Japan and the Problem of Community in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1600-1868 -- 9. The Limits of Community -- Index