Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Vanishing Peasants: Class, Community, and the Anomaly of Rural Collective Action 1
5. 2. The Forces of Constraint and Community Rebellion 25
6. 3. Between Manor and State: The Agrarian Histories of the West 48
7. 4. The English Model and the Compromise of Community 85
8. 5. France and the Politics of Controlled Community, 1500-1900 127
9. 6. Spain and the Logic of Community Cohesion, 1800-1939 162
10. 7. Russia and the Secession of Community, 1800-1930 190
11. 8. Japan and the Problem of Community in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1600-1868 220
12. 9. The Limits of Community 251
13. Index 273