Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. State Formation and Peasant Histories
6. 1. Some Ideological Aspects of the Articulation between Kin and Tribute: State Formation, Military System, and Social Life in Hesse-Cassel, 1688–1815 11
7. 2. Dark Events and Lynching Scenes in the Collective Memory: A Dispossession Narrative about Austria’s Descent into Holocaust 44
8. Part II. Agricultural Production and the Peasant Experience
9. 3. Agrarian Issues during the French Revolution, 1787–1799 69
10. 4. Imagining the Harvest in Early Modern Europe 86
11. Part III. Agrarian and Environmental Histories: Case Studies from South Asia
12. 5. Naturae Ferae: Wild Animals in South Asia and the Standard Environmental Narrative 141
13. 6. Disease, Resistance, and India’s Ecological Frontier, 1770–1947 186
14. 7. Subalterns and Others in the Agrarian History of South Asia 206
15. Part IV. Economic Histories, Local Markets, and Sustainable Development
16. 8. Contesting the ‘‘Great Transformation’’: Local Struggles with the Market in South India 235
17. 9. Policies for Sustainable Development 264
18. 10.Weaving and Surviving in Laichingen, 1650–1900: Micro-History as History and as Research Experience 283
19. Contributors 297
20. Index 301