Peasants, Politics and Revolution: Pressures Toward Political and Social Change in the Third World

Joel S. Migdal

Published by Princeton University Press 1975

Peasants, Politics and Revolution

Pressures Toward Political and Social Change in the Third World

Joel S. Migdal

Volume 1789 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400868766

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During the last quarter century, peasant participation in politics has increased markedly in parts of Latin America and Asia. Why the poor and vulnerable peasant population has chosen to leave the confines of the village for political activity and at times for sustained revolution is the question this book explores.

The author draws on informal interviews and observation of peasants in Mexico and India and on fifty-one community studies of peasants in Asia and Latin America compiled by ethnographers in the last forty years. He suggests that severe economic crises have driven peasants to roles in the larger economy outside the village, where they are initially attracted to politics by material incentives.

Originally published in 1975.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
I. Introduction: Why Peasants Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. The Historical Domination of Inward-Oriented Forces
II. Lord and Peasant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
III. The Freeholding Village Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
IV. Mechanisms of Survival Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
PART TWO. The Fulcrum Shifts: The Challenge of Outward-Oriented Forces
V. Villages under Stress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
VI. Relieving the Stress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
PART THREE. The Triumph of Outward-Oriented Forces
VII. Who Risks Change? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
VIII. Social Structure and Social Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
PART FOUR. Politics and Revolution
IX. The New Political Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
X. Peasant Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
XI. Conclusion: The Shrinking World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Appendix A. The Scale of External Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Appendix B. A List of the Communities Used Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297