Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf’s celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path-breaking

This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and

"Selected references": p. 110-113.

This collection of essays was devised by the author to study how anthropology brought the study of complex societies and world systems in to its purview.

This is the first world history of peasants. Peasants in World History analyzes the multiple transformations of peasant life through history by focusing on thre