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The Making of Peasantries. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Peter McPhee
Affiliation:
Victoria University of Wellington

Abstract

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Type
Capitalist Transformations of Agriculture
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1986

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