DomainArticle in Journal
Title""Almost idiotic wretchedness" : a long history of blaming peasants"
AuthorHandy, Jim
Journal TitleJournal of Peasant Studies
Journal Vol36
Journal Vol Issue36:2
Publication Date2009
Start-End Page325 — 344
Number Of Pages20 p.
Era Covered
Era End
LanguageEnglish
ISSN03066150
Subject Classification
Place
CountryIreland
NotesUses four examples; the enclosures and the consolidation of capitalism in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the Irish potato famine in the middle of the nineteenth century; the spread of colonialism and a type of modernity in other than European locales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; and the rise of development practice and national consolidation in what was then called the third world after the World War II.
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