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

Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. But, do coherent political ide

Joel Beinin's book offers a survey of subaltern history in the Middle East.

France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a

Mark R. Baker focuses on Ukrainian-speaking peasants during the 1914-1921 revolutionary period. Arguing that the peasants of Kharkiv province thought of themsel