The peasantry in the feudal mode of production: Towards an economic model
Jairus Banaji
Over the last thirty years a substantial body of historical writing has evolved which deals in one way or another with nature and tendencies feudal economy. From shorter conjuncture‐studies published Annales, regional monographs sponsored France, monographic estate‐studies popular England, to more concentrated synopses based on them, this literature1 covers vast field, geographically chronologically—sufficiently broad, fact, stimulate recent tendency explore character economy at deeper level abstraction. Kula's study [1970] stands today as major forerunner tendency. Based largely book, short essay sketches framework within it becomes possible concretely connections between commodity‐economy production, specific relationships enterprises production peasantry.2
The Journal of Peasant Studies