Peasantry and the State in Colonial Mexico: A Tentative Comparison with Western Europe
Raymond Buvé
Peasants is a blanket term for all those who, one way or another are involved in agrarian activities, be it as labourer, herdsman, sharecropper, tenant, an independent cultivator combination of two more these activities. Besides this, will have to account part-time income from migratory labour economic activities home industries, petty trade, transport mining. Many peasant societies internally stratified into richer peasants, sometimes village élites, middle peasants and their poor brethren. In Western Europe Mexico most belonged the latter category. For them Darnton's conclusion, ‘to eat not eat, that was die question confronted folklore well daily lives’ certainly valid, and, out necessity, were often looking additional land income. They were, matter, mobile.
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