This narrative of peasant unrest in Russia during 1905–1906 combines a chronology of incidents drawn from official documents, offering a close analysis of the villages associated with the disorders, based upon detailed census materials compiled by local specialists. This analysi…
"This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and de…
Post-socialist development in Bulgaria has led to fundamental changes in social life and political relations and threatened village identity. This study underlinessome of the fundamental processes at work across eastern Europe that explain the widespread ambiguity in regard to p…
Post-socialist development in Bulgaria has led to fundamental changes in social life and political relations and threatened village identity. This study underlinessome of the fundamental processes at work across eastern Europe that explain the widespread ambiguity in regard to p…
Study with special reference to the village of Batagarawa.
Farmers and village life in twentieth-century Japan
Farmers and village life in twentieth-century Japan
Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and Japanese agriculture since the 1960s has been treated as an artificial creation sustained only by protectionism of the wor…