Power and Protest in the Countryside

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 Miséables, 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