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Peasants

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• Peasantry

• Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, by Mao Zedong (HTML at marxists.org)

• An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), by Aldo Lauria-Santiago (page images at Pitt)

• An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), by Aldo Lauria-Santiago (page images at Pitt)

• The Land and The Loom : Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), by Liana Vardi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Robert Edelman
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Fields of France (London: Chapman and Hall, 1905), by A. Mary F. Robinson, illust. by W. B. Macdougall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Land and The Loom : Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), by Liana Vardi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bauer! Wo fehlt's? Ein Ernstes Wort von Spartakus an die Deutschen Kleinbauern! (in German; Berlin: Rote Fahne, 1919), by Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Der Büttnerbauer: Roman (in German; Berlin: F. Fontane und Co. 1895), by Wilhelm von Polenz (HTML and page images at Deutsches Textarchiv)
• Der Büttnerbauer: Roman (in German; Berlin: E. Fleischel und Co. 1920), by Wilhelm von Polenz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Der Wehrwolf: Eine Bauernchronik (in German; Jena; E. Diederichs, 1920), by Hermann Löns (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Irish Peasant: A Sociological Study (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co., 1892), by A Guardian of the Poor (HTML at Wisconsin)

• Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1925), by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by William Archer and Charles Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., n.d.), by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by R. Farquharson Sharp, illust. by Arthur Rackham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Synnöve Solbakken (author's edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, trans. by Rasmus B. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: Monograph of an Immigrant Group (5 volumes; 1918-1920), by William Isaac Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chłopi (4 volumes in Polish; 1918), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'État et les Paysans en Roumanie: Articles Publiés dans l'Indépendance Roumaine (in French; Bucharest: Imp. de "L'Independence Roumaine", 1907), by Emile A. Frunzesco
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Bilder aus dem Sächsischen Bauernleben in Siebenbürgen: Ein Beitrag zur Deutschen Culturgeschichte (in German; Vienna: C. Graeser, 1879), by Franz Friedrich Fronius
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The American Peasant: A Timely Allegory (Chicago: F. J. Schulte and Co., 1892), by Elia Wilkinson Peattie and Thomas Henry Tibbles (HTML at unl.edu)
• A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• A Happy Boy (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, trans. by Mrs. W. Archer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Happy Boy (London: W. Heinemann, 1917), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, trans. by Mrs. W. Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales (London: A. Melrose, ca. 1916), by Caradoc Evans
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Wikisource

• A Sportsman's Sketches, by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, trans. by Constance Garnett
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text

• The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001), by Cindy Forster (page images at Pitt)

• Agrarian Structure and Political Power: Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1995), ed. by Evelyne Huber and Frank Safford (page images at Pitt)

• Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, by Beshara Doumani (HTML at UC Press)

• Palestine Peasantry: Notes on Their Clans, Warfare, Religion, and Laws (London and Edinburgh: Marshall Bros., ca. 1923), by Elizabeth Anne McCaul Finn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The People of Palestine: An Enlarged Edition of "The Peasantry of Palestine, Life, Manners and Customs of the Village" (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1921), by Elihu Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Village Life in Palestine: A Description of the Religion, Home Life, Manners, Customs, Characteristics and Superstitions of the Peasants of the Holy Land, With Reference to the Bible (new edition revised; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by G. Robinson Lees (page images at HathiTrust)

• El Campesino Puertorriqueño (in Spanish; Puerto-Rico: Tip. de J. Gonzalez Font, 1887), by Francisco del Valle Atiles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Russia (1905 edition), by Donald Mackenzie Wallace (Gutenberg text)

• Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the Russian Civil War (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2008), by Erik C. Landis (page images at Pitt)

• The Land Revolution in Russia: Being a Speech on the Land Question by Lenin in December 1918, Together With the Two Fundamental Land Decrees of the Russian Soviet Republic (London: Independent Labour Party, ca. 1919), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and Russian S.F.S.R.
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Mark (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1902), by Friedrich Engels (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History of an East Anglian Soke: Studies in Original Documents (Including Hitherto Unpublished Material Dealing with the Peasants' Rising of 1381 and Bondage and Bond Tenure) (Bedford: Beds. Times Pub. Co., 1918), by Christobel Mary Hoare Hood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History, by Paul Vinogradoff (text files at McMaster)

• Union-Smashing in Sacramento: The Truth About the Criminal Syndicalism Trial (New York: National Sacramento Appeal Committee, 1935), by Herbert Solow
  • page images at Pitt
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Union-Smashing in Sacramento: The Truth About the Criminal Syndicalism Trial (New York: National Sacramento Appeal Committee, 1935), by Herbert Solow
  • page images at Pitt
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (publication #115; Washington: GPO, 1923), by United States Children's Bureau, contrib. by Ellen Nathalie Matthews and Gertrude Underhill Light (page images at Harvard)

• Pelle the Conqueror, by Martin Andersen Nexø, trans. by Jesse Muir and Bernard Miall (Gutenberg text)

• Hodge and His Masters, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• The Toilers of the Field (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Congo: or, Jasper's Experience in Command (New York: Harper and Bros., c1857), by Jacob Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (publication #115; Washington: GPO, 1923), by United States Children's Bureau, contrib. by Ellen Nathalie Matthews and Gertrude Underhill Light (page images at Harvard)

• Truck-Farm Labor in New Jersey, 1922 (USDA dept. bulletin #1285; Washington: SPO, 1925), by Josiah C. Folsom
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Harvesters: The Story of the Migrant People (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1961), by Louisa Rossiter Shotwell (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.