Peasants and globalization : political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Description:xi, 347 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods ; 2
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7410257
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Other authors / contributors:Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon, 1958-
Kay, Cristóbal.
ISBN:9780415446297 (hbk.)
0415446295 (hbk.)
9780203891834 (ebk.)
020389183X (ebk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations and acronyms
  • Part 1. Peasant Livelihoods and the Agrarian Question
  • 1. The agrarian question: peasants and rural change
  • Part 2. Historical Perspectives on Agrarian Change
  • 2. Peasants and the market imperative: the origins of capitalism
  • 3. The landlord class, peasant differentiation, class struggle and the transition to capitalism: England, France and Prussia compared
  • 4. Nineteenth century imperialism and structural transformation in colonized countries
  • 5. The invisible hand and the visible foot: peasants, dispossession and globalization
  • 6. Peasant struggles for land and agrarian reform in Latin America
  • Part 3. Contemporary Perspectives on Agrarian Change
  • 7. The globalization of manufacturing production: Warrenite fantasies and uneven and unequal realities
  • 8. Gender justice, land and the agrarian question in Southern Africa
  • 9. The political economy of land and the agrarian question in an era of neoliberal globalization
  • 10. Agrarian questions from transition to globalization
  • 11. The Southern question: agrarian questions of labour and capital
  • 12. Food sovereignty, social reproduction and the agrarian question
  • Part 4. The Agrarian Question, Past and Present
  • 13. Neoliberal globalization, the traits of rural accumulation and rural politics: the agrarian question in the twenty-first century
  • Index