Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
An historian of the Annales school, Lucette Valensi blends the methods of history and anthropology to portray the Tunisian countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which has been previously little-studied. She analyses the nomadic tribes and the sedentary peasants, discussing their social organisation, their economic activity, and their cultural practices. She also explores the changes that affected both the peasantry and the Tunisian state in the nineteenth century, showing how the country's incorporation into the capitalist world economy led to social unrest, and eventually to the general rebellion of 1864 that precipitated the establishment of a French protectorate, thus placing Tunisia in a role of dependence and heralding underdevelopment.
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Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
An historian of the Annales school, Lucette Valensi blends the methods of history and anthropology to portray the Tunisian countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which has been previously little-studied. She analyses the nomadic tribes and the sedentary peasants, discussing their social organisation, their economic activity, and their cultural practices. She also explores the changes that affected both the peasantry and the Tunisian state in the nineteenth century, showing how the country's incorporation into the capitalist world economy led to social unrest, and eventually to the general rebellion of 1864 that precipitated the establishment of a French protectorate, thus placing Tunisia in a role of dependence and heralding underdevelopment.
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Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

by Lucette Valensi
Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

by Lucette Valensi

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An historian of the Annales school, Lucette Valensi blends the methods of history and anthropology to portray the Tunisian countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which has been previously little-studied. She analyses the nomadic tribes and the sedentary peasants, discussing their social organisation, their economic activity, and their cultural practices. She also explores the changes that affected both the peasantry and the Tunisian state in the nineteenth century, showing how the country's incorporation into the capitalist world economy led to social unrest, and eventually to the general rebellion of 1864 that precipitated the establishment of a French protectorate, thus placing Tunisia in a role of dependence and heralding underdevelopment.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521109017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 06/18/2009
Series: Studies in Modern Capitalism
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Families coming from the same stock; 2. the people and the land; 3. A society in the process of underdevelopment; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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