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The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800-1990s

The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800-1990s

Elson, R. E.

Paperback

Series: Modern Economic History of Southeast Asia

EconomicsGeneral World HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0333552946
ISBN13: 9780333552940
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 24 1997
Pages: 335
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that with demographic growth and the nineteenth century development of great global markets based on small-scale production, the size and economic significance of peasantries throughout the region was magnified. However, such changes brought with them new forces - stronger states, more regular legal systems, a revolution in communications, intensive commercialisation - which themselves worked to undermine the foundations of peasant society and, eventually, to transform peasants into farmers, workers and citizens.

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