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- The Irish and the Italians were peasants, tenant farmers from the impoverished countryside of Europe.†
Chpt 5 *peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- They simply exchanged the life of a feudal peasant in Mexico for the life of a feudal peasant in California.†
Chpt 5
- They simply exchanged the life of a feudal peasant in Mexico for the life of a feudal peasant in California.†
Chpt 5
- Or consider the life of a peasant in eighteenth-century Europe.†
Chpt 8
- In The Discovery of France, the historian Graham Robb argues that peasant life in a country like France, even well into the nineteenth century, was essentially brief episodes of work followed by long periods of idleness.†
Chpt 8
- If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn't sleep through the winter.†
Chpt 8
- The peasants of Europe worked essentially as low-paid slaves of an aristocratic landlord, with little control over their own destinies.†
Chpt 8peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- The historian David Arkush once compared Russian and Chinese peasant proverbs, and the differences are striking.†
Chpt 8
- That's the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work.†
Chpt 8peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- Here are some of the things that penniless peasants would say to one another as they worked three thousand hours a year in the baking heat and humidity of Chinese rice paddies (which, by the way, are filled with leeches): "No food without blood and sweat."†
Chpt 8
- Kung leisurely gathering mongongo nuts, or the French peasant sleeping away the winter, or anyone else living in something other than the world of rice cultivation, that proverb would be unthinkable.†
Chpt 8
- * They are the kinds of places where, for hundreds of years, penniless peasants, slaving away in the rice paddies three thousand hours a year, said things to one another like "No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich."†
Chpt 8peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Definitions:
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(1)
(peasant) used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)