Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf : Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies (Paperback)

Introduction; 1 Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century: A Critique; 2 Developing our Approach: Towards a Marxian Perspective after Wolf; 3 The Rise of Capitalism in England, and the Emergence of Core and Periphery in the Global Political Economy; 4 The Reform of the Corn Laws and the Emergence of the ‘First’ or British ‘Liberal’ Food Regime, 1840?1870; 5 The Emergence of the ‘Second’ or ‘Imperial’ Food Regime, 1870?1930; 6 Agrarian Capitalism and 'Core'?'Periphery' Dynamics from 1930 to the Present Day: Peasant Elimination in the North, Peasant Perpetuation in the South; 7 Conclusion: Wolf and the Revival of Critical Agrarian Studies