Acknowledgments

Introduction

James C. Scott

PART I. STATE FORMATION AND PEASANT HISTORIES

Some Ideological Aspects of the Articulation between Kin and Tribute: State Formation, Military System, and Social Life in Hesse-Cassel, 1688--1815

Peter Taylor

Dark Events and Lynching Scenes in the Collective Memory: A Dispossession Narrative about Austria's Descent into Holocaust

Hermann Rebel

PART II. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND THE PEASANT EXPERIENCE

Agrarian Issues during the French Revolution, 1787--1799

Peter Jones

Imagining the Harvest in Early Modern Europe

Liana Vardi

PART III. AGRARIAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES: CASE STUDIES FROM SOUTH ASIA

Naturae Ferae: Wild Animals in South Asia and the Standard Environmental Narrative

Paul Greenough

Disease, Resistance, and India's Ecological Frontier, 1770--1947

David Arnold

Subalterns and Others in the Agrarian History of South Asia

David Ludden

PART IV. ECONOMIC HISTORIES, LOCAL MARKETS, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Contesting the ``Great Transformation'': Local Struggles with the Market in South India

Ronald J. Herring

Policies for Sustainable Development

Herman E. Daly

Weaving and Surviving in Laichingen, 1650--1900: Micro-History as History and as Research Experience

Hans Medick

List of Contributors

Index