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
