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Author:   Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk ,  Rolf Bauer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   50
Weight:   0.927kg
ISBN:  

9789004524941

ISBN 10:   9004524940
Pages:   466
Publication Date:   22 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures, Tables and Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction   Rolf Bauer and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk section 1 The Agrarian Question and the Resilience of the Peasant Family Farms 1 Peasant Households under Pressure Women’s Work and the Cultivation System on Java, 1830–1870   Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 2 Peasant Life Courses and Social Mobility in Serfdom The Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries   Josef Ehmer 3 Escape from New York Gender and the Rural Safety Valve, 1856–1884   Katherine Jellison 4 Landlords and Sharecroppers in Wine Producing Regions Beaujolais, Catalonia and Tuscany, 1800–1940   Juan Carmona and James Simpson 5 Co-producers of Architects The Role of Farm Women in the Reconstruction of Farmhouses in the Netherlands after the Second World War   Sophie Elpers 6 Hoeing the Land and Shifting the Cultivator Labour, Land and Environment in the Eastern Himalayas   Debojyoti Das 7 Agrarian Change in the Hills of Northeast India The Unlikely Story of Shifting Agriculture   A. Lozaanba Khumbah section 2 Coerced Labour Relations in the Global Countryside 8 Cassava, Cacao and Catechesis Agriculture and Extractivism in the Jesuit Missions on the Amazon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries   Karl Heinz Arenz 9 A Laboratory of Colonial Agricultural Modernity Environment, Sugar and Slavery in Cuba   Leida Fernandez-Prieto 10 Dynamics of the Plantationocene Finance Capital and the Labour Regime on British Colonial Plantations in Nineteenth-Century South Asia   Rachel Kurian 11 The Mistress of the Coffee Markets of the World Slavery in Brazil and the Kangany System in Ceylon, c. 1815–1878   Rafael Marquese 12 A Contract with Many Facets Sharecropping and Credit Interlinkages in Southwestern Brazilian Plantations, 1840–1940   Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza and Rogério Naques Faleiros section 3 State Intervention and Agricultural Labour Mobility 13 Vulnerability beyond Revolutions Rural Workers, Former Slaves and Indentured Migrants in the French Empire   Alessandro Stanziani 14 Between Community Development Effort and Hidden Colonial Forced Labour The Long History of “Communal Labour” in Gold Coast/Ghana, 1927–2010   Alexander Keese 15 Agricultural Labour Regimes of Im_Mobilisation On the Legacies of Internal and External Colonisation within Europe   Dina Bolokan 16 Cheap Labour, (Un)Organised Workers The Oppressive Exploitation of Labour Migrants in the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry   Janina Puder Index

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Rolf Bauer, Ph.D., (2018), University of Vienna, is an economic and social historian at that same university.He is the author of The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India (Brill, 2019). Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Ph.D., (2007), is Professor of economic and social history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Among other publications, she authored the monograph Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java. Comparisons, Contrasts, Connections, 1830-1940 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

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