The Egalitarian Moment

An account of the recent unsuccessful attempts in Asia and Africa to create egalitarian rural societies.

List of contents

1. Landlord abolition and the rural order: Egypt, India; 2. Richer peasants and the state: East Africa, Papua New Guinea; 3. Rightest regimes and peasant societies: Iran, Southeast Asia; 4. Leftist regimes and their peasantries: Ethiopia, China, Vietnam; Index.

Summary

This book analyses the many attempts in Asia and Africa in the third quarter of the twentieth century to create egalitarian rural societies, their failure, and the differentiated rural regimes which, despite landlord abolition, remain there to this day.

Product details

• Authors: D. A. Low, Donald A. Low
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2015
• EAN: 9780521496650
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49665-0
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 326 g
• Series: Wiles Lectures; The Wiles Lectures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)