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The Imperfect Peasant Economy
The Loire Country 1800-1914
A geographical, regional study which shows how a household economy works and survives in an age of technological change and crisis. The book provides the basis of Dallas’s main themes: survival in change; adaptation in movement; the identification of people and events with real places.
Reviews of The Imperfect Peasant Economy
This book was well reviewed when it came out in 1982 and is still quoted in scholarly works. It has recently been published in paperback format.
It is a geographical, regional study which shows how a household economy works and survives in an (...)
Aims and scope
Why should an Englishman, trained in America, be interested in French peasants? Initial reasons are rarely the most important, but they do provide the catalyst. When I began this study in the early 1970s, my intention was to describe and analyze (...)
Preface
Rural France has its commentators, its sociologists, its historians. The purpose of this book is not simply to add new details to an already respectable body of literature - though there is value to that - but to explain, theoretically and (...)
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