Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century - Softcover

Eric R. Wolf (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806131969 ISBN 13: 9780806131962

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999

Synopsis

This book, the only first-hand account from the Jordanian perspective of the 1994 peace agreement between Jordan and Israel, is a major contribution to our understanding of the complexities of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.In 1994, Jordan and Israel achieved a peace treaty through bilateral negotiations initiated and sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union. This book reveals in candid detail the difficulties of negotiating with other Arab nations as well as with Israel, the challenge of countering domestic opposition, and the triumph of achieving an agreement.

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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

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

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0806131969
• ISBN 13: 9780806131962
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352