This urbanpeasantrydisappeared more or less at the same time as the industrial working class, in historical terms.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thepeasantryis an immense subject and the result is a macro-history with heavy emphasis on the methodologies of the social sciences.From theCambridge English Corpus
This is thepeasantryas an abstraction and, as such, highlights economic models, social structures, and agrarian systems.From theCambridge English Corpus
She differed, however, in stressing that agraristas, the beneficiaries of revolutionary agrarian reform, also came from thepeasantry.From theCambridge English Corpus
Although set in 1920, it would have had resonances for contemporary audiences in the ways in which it epitomises urban attitudes towards thepeasantry.From theCambridge English Corpus
The present capitalist encroachment goes beyond the existingpeasantryand in the process also reconstitutes the indigenous 'tribal' minorities into various forms.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thepeasantrysaw no purpose in improving yields or diversifying crops when the fruit of their labor was not their own.From theCambridge English Corpus
This type of meddling with members' privileges was disliked by thepeasantry, and the member concerned was allowed to stay.From theCambridge English Corpus
Structural adjustment policies, it is argued, have chipped away at the peasantry's economic viability, social coherence and class position.From theCambridge English Corpus
It is probably to this period that we should assign the consolidation of the class stratification between a pastoral nobility and an agriculturalpeasantry.From theCambridge English Corpus
At the very least, these actions suggest that the government has multiple, contradictory and conflicting ' official ' policy positions on what to do with thepeasantry.From theCambridge English Corpus
But much attention was also paid to the ways in which the relationship between states and peasantries remained contradictory or conflictual.From theCambridge English Corpus
Interestingly, both these historians later moved away from intellectual history to social history and the experience of thepeasantry.From theCambridge English Corpus
In this situation, urban mestizo teachers might choose to side with thepeasantry, and this was a significant political act.From theCambridge English Corpus
It questions the deagrarianisation thesis, and its assumption of an associated increasing well-being of thepeasantry.From theCambridge English Corpus
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