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Unjust Taxation and Popular Resistance

“Historical materialism as a concept for understanding society, past, present and future, is under constant examination, by its adherents as much as by its opponents. Some of these discussions are stimulating, intellectually exciting and perhaps even useful for the definition of political strategies. Much space has been occupied . . .” read more

Feudalism in Europe: Problems for Historical Materialists

“I must first state the nature of the problems with which I am concerned in this paper. As one who accepts the basic principles of historical materialism, I am nevertheless not so much concerned with debates located purely within its theoretical constructs as with the explanation of the . . .” read more

Individualism and the English Peasantry

“Alan Macfarlane’s principal objective in The Origins of English Individualism is to prove that there was no peasantry in England during the middle ages and that attempts to describe the development of capitalism as a consequence of the emergence of capitalist relations of production from a pre-capitalist peasant . . .” read more

Warriors and Peasants

“Georges Duby is not only the most interesting medievalist writing in France today, but one whose total scholarly production over the last 20 years has given him a European pre-eminence. He is best known in this country for his Rural Economy and the Life of the Countryside in . . .” read more