Remembering Peasants
** Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize**
‘A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book’ Annie Proulx
A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban.
In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of thi...
** Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize**
‘A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book’ Annie Proulx
A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban.
In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of thi...
