Peasants Capitalism and the Work of Eric R Wolf Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies First Edition by Mark Tilzey, Fraser Sugden, David Seddon 9780429946578 0429946570
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Author: Mark Tilzey, Fraser Sugden, David Seddon
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 Europe and the People Without History, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf’s contribution to the study of the peasantry and its relationship to capitalism, the state, and imperialism. This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of Wolf’s premises, methodology, and understanding of the peasantry, and its relationship to the rise of capitalism and the modern state. The authors analyse Wolf’s theoretical approach and, by building on his work in Europe and the People Without History especially, argue their own position concerning the dynamics of the peasantry in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism. Further, the text aims to answer the agrarian question more widely, focusing on agrarian society and the political role of the peasantry in contested transitions to capitalism and to modes beyond capitalism. This requires, the authors argue, an analysis of class struggle and of the resources, material and discursive, that different classes can bring to bear on this struggle. Based on well-founded theoretical premises, the book focuses on the contested rise of capitalism in the global North, the development of core–periphery relations in the global political economy, and the place of the peasantry in these dynamics. The book presents case studies of transitions to agrarian capitalism in the British Isles, France, Germany, Japan, and the USA. The book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of peasant studies, rural politics, agrarian studies, development, and political ecology.
Peasants Capitalism and the Work of Eric R Wolf Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies First Table of contents:
1. Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century: A Critique
Introduction
Wolf’s Preface
Anthropology
Peasants – As Distinct from ‘Primitives’ and Farmers
The Long Process of Transformation
Peasant Differentiation and Intra-Class Dynamics
Peasants and Inter-Class Dynamics
Class Consciousness and Political Action
Peasants and the Agrarian Question
The Combined and Uneven Development of Capitalism
Wolf’s Selection of Case Studies
His Rationale
The Case Studies as Specific Periods in a Longer Historical Context
Wolf’s Conclusion
Summary Assessment of PWTC
References
2. Developing Our Approach: Towards a Marxian Perspective after Wolf
Developing Our Theoretical Approach
After PWTC: Wolf’s Turn to Marxian Theory in EPWH
Our Theoretical Approach
Class Struggle and the Development of Capitalism in the Core
The Creation of the Periphery
The Peasantry and the Periphery
Conceptualizing the Contemporary Peasantry under Neoliberalism and Peasant Mobilization
Conceptualising the Relationship between the Economic and Political
Defining the Peasantry
The Agrarian Question
References
3. The Rise of Capitalism in England, and the Emergence of Core and Periphery in the Global Political Economy
The Transition from Agrarian Feudalism to Industrial Capitalism
‘Anti-capitalist’ movements?
The Long Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
England
The Causal Basis of Capitalism in England
The Global Diffusion of Capitalism
References
4. The Reform of the Corn Laws and the Emergence of the ‘First’ or British ‘Liberal’ Food Regime, 1840–1870
References
5. The Emergence of the ‘Second’ or ‘Imperial’ Food Regime, 1870–1930
From Liberalism to Imperialism
Transitions to Capitalism Elsewhere in the ‘Core’
USA
France
Japan
Concluding Comments
References
6. Agrarian Capitalism and ‘Core’–‘Periphery’ Dynamics from 1930 to the Present Day: Peasant Elimination in the North, Peasant Perpetuation in the South
The Rise of the ‘Third’, or ‘Political Productivist’, Food Regime 1930–1980: The Diffusion of the ‘Farmer Road’ to National Developmentalism
The ‘Fourth’ or ‘Neoliberal’ Food Regime, 1980–2010
The Fifth International, or ‘Post-Neoliberal’, Food Regime
References
7. Conclusion: Wolf and the Revival of Critical Agrarian Studies
References
Index
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