From the rural to the urban and the production of space / Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton -- Notes on translation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to From the rural to the urban (1969) -- Problems of rural sociology: the peasant community and its historical-sociological problems (1949) --...

Material life in west and West Central Africa, 1650-1800 : an introduction -- Seeds of change : African agricultural workers in the Anglo-American colonies -- Cultivating knowledge : African tobacco and cotton workers in the Americas -- In an ocean of blue : West African indigo workers in the...

"Since its founding, the government of the People's Republic of China has strived to transform rural production, the theme of this volume of History of Contemporary China. Fourteen articles translated from the Chinese journal Contemporary History (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu) offer both...