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Peasant

A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: non-free slaves, semi-free serfs, and free tenants. Peasants might hold title to land outright (fee…

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Social position

Medieval European peasants

Early modern Germany

France

Chinese farmers

Latin American farmers

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related to Bibliography · 66
Peasant → Aldine Pub, America, Bix, Charles, Chicago, Clifton, Co, Community, Conflict, Cox, Critical Companion, Culture, David, Eighteenth, Eric, Esther, Europe, European Russia, Evans, Figes
related to Recent · 26
Peasant → Agrarian Question, Akram-Lodhi, Barkin, Brass, Cristobal Kay, David, Globalization, Haroon, ISBN, Issue, James, Latin American Peasants, Latin American Research Review, Peasants, Political Economy, Populism, Postmodernism, Rebellion, Rural Transformation, Scott
related to Chinese farmers · 17
Peasant → Anthropologist Myron Cohen, China, Chinese, Cohen, English, English-language, Europe, Farmers, French Revolution, He, However, In, Japanese, These, This Western, Western, Writers
related to France · 17
Peasant → Eugen Weber, France, French, French Revolution, Frenchmen, Frenchness, He, Historian Jill Maciak, In, Information, Modernization, Paris, Peasants, Rural France, The, Third Republic, Weber
related to Historiography · 16
Peasant → Capitalism, Century, Civilization, Europe, Everyday Life, Fei Xiaotong, Fernand Braudel, Florian Znaniecki, French, In, Its, Other, Robert Redfield, The Annales School, The Structures, Third World
related to Early modern Germany · 14
Peasant → Bauer, Bur, East, English, German, Germany, In, In Germany, In Prussia, Inside, Low German, Much, The, They
related to Latin American farmers · 11
Peasant → Campesino, Campesinos, Every, Hence, In Latin America, Latin America, Latin American, Paraguay, The, The Catholic Bishops, While
related to Medieval European peasants · 10
Peasant → Black Death, Enlightenment, Europe, Fallowed, In, It, Peasants, The, Under, Western Europe
related to Social position · 5
Peasant → Middle Ages, More, Peasants, The, Though
see also · 4
Peasant → AgrarianismCudgel WarFamily, EuropeSerfdomVia Campesina, Party, Peasants' RepublicPeasants' RevoltPetty

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Peasantis apre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership0.90text
Daniel Thornerinstance ofdrew on the work of earlier scholars in the Marxist tradition0.80text
who saw the rural population as a key element in the transition from feudalism to capitalisminstance ofdrew on the work of earlier scholars in the Marxist tradition0.80text
Peasantrelated to BibliographyBix0.60section
Peasantrelated to BibliographyHerbert0.60section
Peasantrelated to BibliographyPeasant Protest0.60section
Peasantrelated to BibliographyJapan0.60section
Peasantrelated to BibliographyISBN0.60section
Peasantrelated to BibliographyEvans0.60section
Peasantrelated to BibliographyRichard0.60section
Peasantrelated to BibliographyLee0.60section
Peasantrelated to BibliographyThe German Peasantry0.60section

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