Jim Handy
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! Tiny Engines of AbundanceA History of Peasant Productivity and Repression |
This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, … | Jim Handy | 157 | 2022 | View |
From NEW! “Swept Away through Injustice” |
Chapter 1 introduces the premise of the book, which is to reexamine the idea of progress that we tie to the evolution of industrial agriculture over the last 200 years. Examination of this period … | Jim Handy | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
From NEW! “A Multiplication of Wretchedness” in England, 1750–1850 |
Chapter 2 examines England and Wales from the late 1700s and early 1800s, in the midst of what has often been called an agriculture revolution. This chapter argues that appreciation for the … | Jim Handy | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
From NEW! Jamaican Peasants in Slavery, Semi-slavery and Freedom |
Chapter 3 examines Jamaica in the decades following slave emancipation in the 1830s, when Jamaica was often put forward as exemplifying the calamitous results of a prosperous peasantry. Topics … | Jim Handy | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
From “Drawing Forth the Force that Slumbered in Peasants’ Arms”The Economist, High Agriculture & Selling Capitalism From: Food Sovereignty |
- | Carla Fehr; Jim Handy | 17 | 2010 | $1.87 Add |
From NEW! Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa |
Chapter 4 examines Guatemala during the mid-20th century, as various governments sought to “modernize” Mayan traditional milpa agriculture, resulting in a genocide directed at Mayan … | Jim Handy | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
From NEW! Nigerian Smallholders: Masters of the Environment |
Chapter 5 examines Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s, when governments– advised by Western development specialists– sought to “capture” peasant production and boost export … | Jim Handy | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From NEW! Kerala: A Return to the Future |
Chapter 6 examines the Indian state of Kerala, a small state in the southwest of the subcontinent that had been the site of ongoing reforms beginning almost immediately after its formation in … | Jim Handy | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
From NEW! Conclusion: “A Sweet Habit of the Blood” |
The conclusion reflects on the author’s hopes that the book could help portray the hardships and resilience peasants have displayed over the last 200 years across the globe. | Jim Handy | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |