Project

“The end of peasantries? A Comparative Research into the Transformation of Peasantries and Its Impact on Social Relations and Inequality (Northwestern Europe, Middle Africa, Andes, East coast of China, 1500-2000).”

Code
3G021109
Duration
01 January 2009 → 30 June 2015
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
Keywords
incorporation Peasantries world history comparison
 
Project description

This project assesses the historical processes of peasant transformation in relation to world-systemic expansion within a comparative research design. The North Sea Basin, East Congo, the Central Andean Highlands, and the Yangzi River Delta reflect divergent historical roads of peasant incorporation in space (zoning within the world-economy) and over time (phases of incorporation).