Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century - Softcover

Wolf, Eric Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571101798 ISBN 13: 9780571101795

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1973

Synopsis

328 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

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Review:

"[Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century] provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Cuba, and Viet Nam--not from the perspective of governments or parties or leaders, but from the perspective of the peasant peoples whose lives and ways of living were destroyed by the depredations of the imperial powers, including American imperial power."--"New York Times Book Review"

"Eric Wolf's study of the six great peasant-based revolutions of the century demonstrates a mastery of his field and the methods required to negotiate it that evokes respect and admiration. In six crisp essays, and a brilliant conclusion, he extends our understanding of the nature of peasant reactions to social change appreciably by his skill in isolating and analyzing those factors, which, by a magnification of the anthropologist's techniques, can be shown to be crucial in linking local grievances and protest to larger movements of political transformation."--"American Political Science Review"

"An intellectual "tour de force"."--"Comparative Politics"

"An intellectual "tour de force.""--"Comparative Politics"

-[Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century] provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Cuba, and Viet Nam--not from the perspective of governments or parties or leaders, but from the perspective of the peasant peoples whose lives and ways of living were destroyed by the depredations of the imperial powers, including American imperial power.---New York Times Book Review

-Eric Wolf's study of the six great peasant-based revolutions of the century demonstrates a mastery of his field and the methods required to negotiate it that evokes respect and admiration. In six crisp essays, and a brilliant conclusion, he extends our understanding of the nature of peasant reactions to social change appreciably by his skill in isolating and analyzing those factors, which, by a magnification of the anthropologist's techniques, can be shown to be crucial in linking local grievances and protest to larger movements of political transformation.---American Political Science Review

-An intellectual tour de force.---Comparative Politics

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0571101798
• ISBN 13: 9780571101795
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 347