Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy

by Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Professor Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Book Overview

A new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's influential ethnography of a village in Dominica.

Over thirty-five years ago, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's debut ethnography, Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy, dared to regard peasants not as vestiges of premodern economies but as instrumental to, and integrated in, a capitalist world system. Combining historical ethnography with an intimate portrait of a banana-producing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914363221
• ISBN13: 9781914363221
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Hau
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.