Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression

by Jim Handy and James Handy

This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. These stories provide us with pictures of carefully limited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773635212
• ISBN13: 9781773635217
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"