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Definition of Peasantries
1. peasantry [n] - See also: peasantry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peasantries
Literary usage of Peasantries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Discussions in Economics and Statistics by Francis Amasa Walker, Davis Rich Dewey (1899)
"... in the then state of news- communication and ocean-transportation, and in
spite of the ignorance and extreme poverty of the peasantries of Europe from ..."
2. Readings in Social Problems by Albert Benedict Wolfe (1916)
"... in the then state of news-communication and ocean-transportation, and in spite
of the ignorance and extreme poverty of the peasantries of Europe from ..."
3. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"It might have been expected, after the passages quoted from Mr. Ruskin concerning
the bovine condition of Alpine peasantries, that he would salute the ..."
4. What Holds Us Together: Social Cohesion in South Africa by David Chidester, Phillip Dexter (2004)
"Bryceson DF (2000) Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour Redundancy in the Neo-
Liberal Era in Bryceson DF, Kay C & Mooij J (eds) Disappearing Peasantries? ..."
5. Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece by Siriol Davies, Jack L Davis (2007)
"1360-1860," in The Peasantries of Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth
Centuries, ed. T. Scott, London, pp. 269— 310. Athanassopoulos, EF 1997. ..."
6. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1907)
"Nor is this peculiar to Sambo; it has in history been just as true of John and
Hans, of Jacques and Pat, of all ground-down peasantries. ..."
7. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... the instant it came to strokes : " You Lawyer people, with your priests and
orthodox peasantries, you do the fighting part; ours is the consulting! ..."
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