Peasants
Makers of the Modern World
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Maryam Aslany
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"An out-and-out masterpiece." —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
For centuries, peasants stood at the heart of human society: feeding empires, leading revolutions, building modern states. Industrial modernity forced them into the shadows, replaced by machines and urbanization... or so the story goes. But the elimination of the peasantry is a myth.
Today, peasants make up roughly a quarter of humanity, most of them in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where small family farms remain the backbone of society. They underpin the global economy, stabilize food systems, and protect fragile ecosystems. Peasants hold up the modern world, yet their labor and voices have been hidden in plain sight—until now.
In this landmark book, Maryam Aslany, a professor and researcher of economic sociology, restores the peasantry to the center of our global story, showing that the workers of the world are not gone, but forgotten and exploited for political power and financial gain. She embarks on an epic journey to some of the most remote places on earth—from India’s sugarcane fields to Cambodia’s rice plains, from Peru’s cocaine valleys to Ghana’s cocoa belt—traveling deep into the landscapes from which global supply chains spring. Here, she uncovers the lives behind the world’s most vital products. She speaks to farmers, smugglers, and traffickers. She meets men driven to extremism or suicide by failing livelihoods, and women forced to bear the burden of agricultural labor and familial survival.
As the global demand for cheap goods intensifies, the world's most vital and innovative demographic is being forced into ever more destitute conditions. And the consequences of the peasant class's exploitation and suffering are already starting to show: food insecurity, mass migration, sectarian violence, ecological collapse. On our current path, the peasantry's demise coincides with humanity's. Aslany shows that far from being a relic of our past, the peasantry is essential to our future.
Blending personal stories with on-the-ground reporting and pioneering new research, Peasants is a far-reaching yet intimate portrait of the world in four crops—sugarcane, rice, cocoa, and cocaine—and an urgent reminder that the story of the countryside is the story of us all.
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“Peasants has earned a place in the very short shelf of books that genuinely make you see the world anew. Maryam Aslany has thought deeply, read widely, travelled globally and observed minutely to produce a book whose insights turn our preconceptions upside down. In often exquisite prose, illuminated with brilliant shafts of scholarship, she has written a text that is as profound as it is wide-ranging and, potentially, world-changing. Over and again she reminds us of the crucial but usually ignored role that peasants still play in keeping the world in balance, 'holding in check an industrial world which has none of their reverence for nature. Our fragile world is only as intact as it is because of them.' Peasants is not just an extraordinary debut, it is that most precious rarity: an out-and-out masterpiece.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
“On each page of this remarkable book, Aslany marshals evidence to counter received wisdom about the inevitable extinction of global peasantry. As we drift into a world of megacities, she shows how cultural and intellectual forces across the political spectrum conspire to render another quarter of contemporary humanity invisible, with catastrophic consequences for our future. Shifting registers, from deep history to first-hand encounters with farmers and landscapes across the world, Aslany builds an argument of astonishing scope and consistency. There is also a miraculous deftness of touch to her writing, which makes the argument of Peasants not just forceful, but riveting to read. This is a major work, bound to ruffle feathers and stir debate.” —Professor David Wengrow, co-author of The Dawn of Everything
“Peasants transformed the world in the past, and their views on fairness and sustainability will matter more than ever to shape the twenty-first century. A fascinating book, and a must-read.” —Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“Totally entrancing; utterly fascinating. I found myself reeling (in a good way) each time I put it down. I hope this book, and the journey Maryam Aslany takes us on, prompts us all to think more deeply about the complex, enduring relationship between those who tend the land, and everyone else.” —Ed Conway, author of Material World
“On each page of this remarkable book, Aslany marshals evidence to counter received wisdom about the inevitable extinction of global peasantry. As we drift into a world of megacities, she shows how cultural and intellectual forces across the political spectrum conspire to render another quarter of contemporary humanity invisible, with catastrophic consequences for our future. Shifting registers, from deep history to first-hand encounters with farmers and landscapes across the world, Aslany builds an argument of astonishing scope and consistency. There is also a miraculous deftness of touch to her writing, which makes the argument of Peasants not just forceful, but riveting to read. This is a major work, bound to ruffle feathers and stir debate.” —Professor David Wengrow, co-author of The Dawn of Everything
“Peasants transformed the world in the past, and their views on fairness and sustainability will matter more than ever to shape the twenty-first century. A fascinating book, and a must-read.” —Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“Totally entrancing; utterly fascinating. I found myself reeling (in a good way) each time I put it down. I hope this book, and the journey Maryam Aslany takes us on, prompts us all to think more deeply about the complex, enduring relationship between those who tend the land, and everyone else.” —Ed Conway, author of Material World
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