Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

List of Figures vii 1. Introduction: Moral Economy, Capitalism, and State Power in Rural Protest / Scott E. Guggenheim and Robert P. Weller 3 2. Routine Conflicts and Peasant Rebellions in Seventeenth-Century France / Charles Tilly 13 3. Indian Uprisings under Spanish Colonialism: Southern Mexico in 1712 / Robert Wasserstrom 42 4. Capitalist Penetration in the Nineteenth Century: Creating Conditions for New Patterns of Social Control / Joel S. Migdal 57 5. Bandits, Monks, and Pretender Kings: Patterns of Peasant Resistance and Protest in Colonial Burma, 1826-1941 / Michael Adas 75 6. Peasants, Proletarians, and Politics in Venezuela, 1875-1975 / William Roseberry 106 7. Mao Zedong, Red Miseables, and the Moral Economy of Peasant Rebellion in Modern China / Ralph Thaxton 132 8. What Makes Peasants Revolutionary? / Theda Skocpol 157 9. Afterword: Peasantries and the Rural Sector-Notes on a Discovery / Sidney W. Mintz 180 Notes 189 References 195 Index 207