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Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism The Return of the Agrarian Myth
By Dr Tom Brass
Copyright 2000
396 Pages
by
Routledge
396 Pages
by
Routledge
396 Pages
by
Routledge
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Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old'... Read more
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"hard-hitting...the richness of the work, in terms of historical depth, geographical span, and disciplinary and thematic variety cannot fail to impress"
James Overton,Memorial University of Newfoundland
"This is probably the most important book on politics and development which I have read in the last ten years"
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Brass, Dr Tom
