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Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers.

"This book examines conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants' War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands."--Jacket.

Depicts life among the nine hundred million peasants who inhabit the rural areas of China, revealing the destitute conditions under which they live and the reasons why they have been excluded from China's economic revolution.

This book analyzes the changing context and conditions of peasant production and livelihood in Southeast Asia since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that, with demographic growth and the nineteenth-century development of great global markets, the size and economic significance of peasantries throughout the region was magnified. The later nineteenth century, indeed, can be described as an 'age of peasantry' in Southeast Asia. However,...

"Focusing on three Mexican agricultural regions from the 1930s to the present, Gerardo Otero's Farewell to the Peasantry? Political Class Formation in Rural Mexico offers a new analysis of the intersection of class relations, political mobilization, and regionally varying cultural heritage in rural Mexico. With the prevailing agrarian social structure as his backdrop, Otero examines the social and political circumstances under which different regions...

Novel in which Master Graciliano - so meticulous that he came to appear at the printing press at the time the book entered the press, to check whether the review would interfere with his text - reaches the maximum of an expression he had been seeking in his prose.

This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of street, and how they felt about their Spanish overlords. In examining the...