The Vanishing Peasant: Innovation and Change in French Agriculture

by Henri Mendras

Originally published by Futuribles,the French Center for the Study of the Future, this translation of La Fin des Paysansis a fascinating and highly readable study of the effects of technological change on the structure, attitudes, and values of traditional French rural society. "[Mendras] can clearly draw on a lifelong fund of knowledge and understanding about French farmers.... Starting with basic attitudes to work, the land, the family and the farm,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262130653
• ISBN13: 9780262130653
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.