Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context

by Thomas Summerhill (Editor), James C. Scott (Editor), David A. Chang (Contributor)

This collection, by an international array of historians, examines agrarian radicalism in comparative context from 1500 to the present. What unifies the studies is a shared interest in the ways in which agrarian people in the Atlantic world interacted with each other, transmitted and translated ideas, developed new crops or methods, or formulated critiques of the existing social, economic, and political order. All agree, to varying extents, that the Atlantic world is best conceptualized not as a rigid barrier between nations, peoples, and cultures, but rather a frontier, a permeable space with eddies and currents of ideas, cultivars, and human beings. In addition, as these essays indicate, "radicalism" can be found not only in the political realm, but also in the rate and extent of social, economic, and environmental change.

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2004

Reviews

[Peter Goggins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dense, surprisingly so for a collection of essays. Covers a lot of ground, particularly illuminating when describing the disruptions caused by capitalized and market oriented changes in farm practices in the post Colombian era.