Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf

Highly topical, providing a comprehensive and global overview of peasant mobilizations in the current political economic and ecological context.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the publication of Eric Wolf's Peasant Wars in the Twentieth Century it is the first book to undertake a re-assessment of Wolf's work in the context of 'new world order'.

Using case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America and Europe, it gives a global view, not only of counties where peasant wars have occurred or are currently in progress, but also in more developed countries which have experienced changes in the rural economy.