How To Use Peasant In A Sentence

The new textbooks de-emphasize dynastic change, peasant struggle, ethnic rivalry and war, some critics say, because the leadership does not want people thinking that such things matter a great deal.
There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output.
Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
On the basis of the existing study we tries to resurvey and explore the urban inclusion of peasant workers using the perspective of social exclusion.
I also visited a cooperative of peasant farmers who grow sesame seed.

This woman, dressed in a headscarf, long peasant dress and sweater, stands with her arms folded in front of her as if she is slightly cold or perhaps waiting for a tardy child.
The severity, universality, complexity of peasant burden overweight, is to determined fundamentally that solving peasant burden overweight needs long period of time and arduousness of problem.
Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain. ANC Daily News Briefing
I changed into a pair of black bell-bottoms and a white keyhole peasant shirt that had lace on the cuffs.
Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
This huge increase should have allayed the peasants' suspicions of the new regime, but this was hot the case.
And there was a list of this delegation, of peasants in their white pajamas and their sombreros.
¶ Raud the Strong was the name of a peasant who abode at Godey in that fjord which is named Salpti (Salten). The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
Our ability to stress over trivial cultural issues while ignoring the extermination of the environment will make medieval peasants believing in miracles seem as reasonable as Einstein.
This helped foster the development of an elite that could control access to large tracts of land, including forestlands, setting the stage for peasant tenancy later in the period.
In acquiescing, the government was well aware that the final terms would provoke peasant hostility, and took suitable precautions.
Those confronting the Raj here were poor, unlettered peasants.
In this sense, peasants were simply tenants who worked a strip of land or maybe several strips.
An earthy , uncouth, servile peasant creature old Katy was.
Over one million landless peasants are fighting for land rights and against a military takeover in the largest province of Punjab.
The tradition of the picturesque dates back to paintings and depictions from centuries earlier, which portrayed peasants and farmers as happy, apple-cheeked characters working in harmony with the land.
This rivalry had involved civil wars, peasant uprisings, and religious strife of every description.
The small collection of tops and skirts, based loosely on 1930s Chinese dresses, is elegant and demure, a long way from boho - the floaty skirts, peasant tops and leather disk belts her sister had us all wearing last summer.
Types of workers thus ranged from peasants who supplemented their income with domestic industry, usually in textiles, to highly skilled craftsmen in towns and cities who concentrated on luxury items.
(A striking example of this hypocrisy was the solicitude displayed by the Russian landowners last year, their efforts to combat the famine which they had caused, and by which they profited, selling not only bread at the highest price, but even potato haulm at five rubles the dessiatine (about 2 and four - fifths acres) for fuel to the freezing peasants.) The Kingdom of God Is Within You
They were both dressed so that it was easy to mark them down as gypsy kin, their faded but bright clothes easy to spot amongst the normal gray drab of the peasants.
Secondly, it is not unusual either for many peasants to keep animals in the house, usually verr or bosk, sometimes tarsk, at least in the winter. Mercenaries Of Gor
These structural changes were aggravated by the expulsion of large peasant masses, which increased poverty and unemployment in big cities.
What values does he embody? Grayness grayness that suggests the color of a land and a culture, the color of stone, of peasant clothes.
While Liu's directive appeared to give the poor peasant leagues an important role, in practice they were swamped by huge ‘human wave’ work teams.
The Maoist state preached egalitarianism and relied on the loyalty of workers and peasants.
Born a peasant in the mountainous Cantal region of France in about 950, Gerbert entered a Benedictine monastery -- the only elementary school of his day. Nancy Marie Brown: The Abacus and The Cross: When the Pope Was A Scientist
But the sharp decline in peasant disturbances in the pre-war years pointed to peaceful development.
Once upon a time the peasant had been incorporated into the community as a full member, with all the far-flung consequences we considered earlier.
The president was disguised as a peasant.
After the harvest the peasants enjoyed the collective right to glean and to graze livestock on the stubble.
I guess those peasants in Michigan will just have to settle leftovers, secondary effects: crumbs from the table of your very own economic stimulus, if you will. Matthew Yglesias » Infrastructure Spending Not Targeted to High-Unemployment States: But Should It Be?
A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life.
During the same period, they also began their first and extremely brutal effort to collectivize agriculture — which ended up in the murder and starvation of millions of peasants. The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
To guarantee an S. R.O crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backland peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince. Ferentz LaFargue: Edwidge Danticat's Immigrant Artist at Work
What happened in the three months between Stalin's December announcement and his statement in March 1930 that 58 per cent of peasant households had been collectivized was ghastly.
There is a year-round drought and all the peasants that we saw on the road were covered in yellow mud on their hands and faces, their hair was standing up like straws and their clothes were dusty.
It takes around two or three generations of sweatshops to go from the ancient pattern of peasant subsistence farming, with its characteristic grinding toil for women to where the country is now.
Her musicality shines forth in her lyricism and she made an enchanting peasant Giselle and an ethereal but warm-blooded spirit.
He had limited creole support, but his call galvanized hundreds of peasants and mineworkers who had suffered oppressive conditions in the Bajío region. H. New Spain (Mexico)
The government restructured the tax base to place greater emphasis on indirect taxes (duties, tariffs, excise taxes, and state-owned monopolies over sales of salt and tobacco) rather than on the peasant-based taille.
Lenin proposed that the new regime would be a ‘democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.’
They rode at a footpace to the barn, where a large crowd of peasants was standing. War and Peace
Here was worn the "barret," of scarlet or white, the rich brown jacket and red sash of the peculiar costumes of the Basque and Bearnais peasants -- a fine race of men, and one, too, historically noble. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
Scholars now emphasize the increasing political power of the peasants.
Officers in gay uniforms were scattered among the dark anchorites, who occupied one end of the table, while the _bourgeoisie_, with here and there a blue-caftaned peasant wedged among them, filled the other end. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
She's generally fairly unhip, and looked uber-trendy in an of-the-moment peasant ensemble that both our ancestors would not have paid two roubels for in the Old Country.
A peasant conscript army was established, with weapons being the possessions of the government.
Nearly every peasant household in the area engaged in cocoon production for the urban-based silk filatures.
In the face of repressive regimes, the peasantry have shown a capacity and willingness to organise and mobilise.
The illustrations in such medieval prayer books represented the work of the season: here a peasant mows a meadow.
The remainder was the rural and generally poor peasantry. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
The old peasant was puffing at his pipe.
Eventually the bailiff was charged and his property sequestrated, the governor was removed and later arrested, and - fifteen years after the original dispute - compensation payment made by the estate to some of the peasants.
A major function of the commune was to regulate relations inhering in economic independence, from dividing peasant landholdings equitably to adjusting the rent they paid their owners.
The peasants poured the grain into the elevator.
A famine in that year caused further risings by the peasants against the communists.
The peasant staples were rye bread, and porridge made from oats, buckwheat, or wheat.
An earlier essay by Ms. Wu, titled ‘Cherishing a Faraway Place,’ recalled her rural upbringing and struck a bucolic tone about the simple, honest values of the peasantry.
The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
It was a true colony, a completely imported world: craftsmen, artisans, peasant settlers, ironware - all brought across the Irish Sea.
At length a peasant was found who suited our purpose; but he considered two florins per diem too little pay, so I was obliged to give an additional zwanziger. Visit to Iceland
But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.
The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’
Before 1900, peasants living in the suburban areas of Shanghai made their living by starting small businesses such as charcuteries.
The scenes are bucolic pastorals of peasant and aristocratic life during the period.
The painting shows a typically bucolic scene with peasants harvesting crops in a field.
The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack squatter slum.
The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.
The failure to laugh signifies in the peasant or the Frenchman a politeness that exceeds his intelligence, in the landowner or the Englishman an excessive rigidity, and in the policeman or the German a surfeit of power.
Small peasants, engaged in rice, vegetable and banana cultivation, are unable to find a way out of growing indebtedness, due to the abolition of subsidies on fertilisers, agrochemicals and seeds.
It motivated the expulsion; it financed the colonization; it secured the property rights by which peasants came to hold land in fee-simple tenure.
It is the distinctive items in his diet that communicate not just the man's low social stature but also his specifically rural, peasant origins.
Tons of internationally donated food was distributed to the starving peasants.
Under serfdom, peasants were not paid for their produce on demesne.
It was no longer divided between the small élite of landowners and a mass of peasants and the poor.
His countenance was the droll medley of fun, shrewdness, and blundering, that is so often found in the Irish peasant, and which appears to be characteristic of entire races in the island. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
Medieval agriculture was undertaken by peasants who of course constituted the overwhelming majority of the total population.
The organization of an army of workers and peasants also seemed very difficult to a people who had been called anarchic and without sense of order by their detractors. RURAL TEACHER GRADUATES
He joked with a woman friend wearing a peasant blouse and jeans.
Soldiers had brought in a lean youth in black cotton pajamas who looked like any peasant.
Anhui should encourage developing labour-intensive industry actively and offer the peasants go into town the chance of more employment.
I suspect some of the lace on sale is manufactured by Chinese peasants copying Burano-Venetian lace patterns.
Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
We refer here not only to the daily shootings, the bestialities inflicted on demonstrators and detainees and the vicious campaign of terror carried out against all who are opposed to the apartheid system - churchmen, whole religious communities, students, professors and teachers, workers, peasants, mothers and even children. WE HAVE DECIDED TO LIBERATE OURSELVES
The vanities of sovereignty had never any particular charm for Charles V.; he was not a man who cared "to monarchise and kill with looks," or who could feel a pang at parting with the bauble of a crown; and when the wise world cried out in their surprise, and strained their fancies for the cause of conduct which seemed so strange to them, they forgot that princes who reign to labour, grow weary like the peasant of the burden of daily toil. The Reign of Mary Tudor
Now, it is well known that there is nothing more antipathetic to your peasant-boy than your shopboy. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
In August 1680 simmering peasant discontent in the district of Mondovi had flared up in open rebellion.
Peasant leaders say their communities are still targeted in a counter-insurgency campaign by the military that intimidates poor, mainly indigenous civilians.
Eating out at least five nights a week, she has seen trends come and go: peasant Italian, posh Irish, fish heads, pigs' trotters, white bread, blackened cod, raw beef, triple-cooked chips.
Not so Mo Ti, a peasant philosopher born at about the time that Confucius died.
It was here that he first conceived the idea of being a peasant painter.
There is no connection between the phrase and the actual blood color of nobility; however, in the ancient and medieval societies of Europe, much of the upper class may have had superficial veins that appeared blue through their untanned skin, in contrast with the working class of the time, mainly agricultural peasants who spent most of their time working outdoors and thus had tanned skin. A terribly painful conversation.
The way to ensure that there aren't hungry people in the world is to give peasants land, unencumbered by debt peonage.
A note from the other world will strike upon the chord of my being, and the spirit which has been dozing within me awakens and fiercely beats at its bars, demanding some nobler thought, some higher aspiration, some wider action, a more saturnalian pleasure, something more than the peasant life can ever yield. My Brilliant Career
Note: Although I have used slavery as an example, the same model could be used for Industrial Revolution era workers forced off the land during the Enclosure Acts, native North Americans during the "colonisation" of this continent, redistribution of wealth to peasants in Bolivia, etc. Inheritance
There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.
Anyhow there were the peasants, men and women, boys and young maidens, toiling and swinking; some hoeing between the vine-rows, some bearing baskets of dung up the steep slopes, some in one way, some in another, labouring for the fruit they should never eat, and the wine they should never drink. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
The peasants believed their only choice was to resort to violence.
After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
When the ‘great fear’ erupted in many parts of France in 1789, the peasants who revolted made no distinction between noble and commoner lords.
It was replaced with a more local, romantic Palestinian nationalism - familiar to Europeans - that reveres the peasant and the shepherd and dreams of reaping the land.
Migration to the cities is continuous, with landless peasants supplying low-cost labour for industry.
The latter contains five parts: First, give free rein to political and ideological education for reforming peasants'thoughts.
The landlords for whom most of the campesinos work as sharecroppers do not think that peasants should be taught to read, as they may "misinterpret" the one-sided contracts they must sign in order to work. Mutual aid and survival in the mountains of Oaxaca
As a villein is an unfree peasant or serf, this is unlikely to be literally true. Cadafael, King of Gwynedd
In this, Lenin was more Marxist than Marx, who had observed the revolutionary potential of the Russian peasant commune in the 1870s.
Peasants with a minimal surplus of food could barter it for vital equipment.
Until about 1825 a long slight inflation had kept peasant incomes abreast of the increasing exactions of the official and sub-official classes.
Enclosure turned a once independent peasantry into an unfree workforce in thrall to those who had seized hold by robbery of the means of production in the fields and in the towns.
Such people are not generally peasants or manual workers.
His ships required rowers, whether peasants or soldiers.
This questionable success was sufficient to lead M. de Puységur, a few days after, to try his hand on a young peasant of the name of Victor, who was suffering with a severe fluxion upon the chest. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
By 1844 the Bethany settlers, almost all of them of peasant stock, had nearly five hundred acres under cultivation, most of them with wheat.
Roman law, flocked into such centres; a tenacious and ambitious race of men issued from among the burgesses, who equally hated the naughtiness of the lords and what they called the lawlessness of the peasants. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
Many lose their land and must become tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or wage-laborers for the better-off peasants who can afford fertilizers and some machinery.
State offices gave them the authority to compel peasants and artisans to surrender the resources of the province.
The cutlers of Solingen destroyed foundries that made cheap, cast-iron implements, the Rhine bargemen attacked the steamships that were stealing their trade, and Rhineland peasants surged into the forests to cut wood.
Cumberland curs burst out from backs of cottages and barked like other curs, and the Cumberland peasantry stared after the dog-cart amazedly, as long as it was in sight, like the rest of their race. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Peasant rebellions occurred throughout the 16th century.
A nation four-fifths peasant and two-thirds illiterate was industrialised, urbanised and educated within 30 years.
It is foolhardy to generalize about the political attitudes of 100 million peasants, except to say that they were far from being a cowed mass.
He had the simplicity and naturalness of the Chinese peasant.
A worthy dish, which can embody the sort of rusticity which the word ‘peasant’ evokes, but can also exhibit the kind of refinement associated with bourgeoise cookery.
As I've already noted, at the lowest levels what we see is a slow but steady change from a countryside populated by slaves to one populated by peasants and serfs.
His father was a self-made rich peasant, hard-working and frugal, narrowed rather than broadened in mind by his hard-won success.
The overall trend in peasant living standards during the period is hotly disputed.
When I asked about why there were so few workers, A CVA official showing us the farm explained that the idea is to create primary production units where there is no organized peasant group and he called the foreman to attention ordering an end to domino sessions and strict compliance with the agreed timetable. Venezuela's Agrarian Reform in Action - INTI vs. Sigala in Barquisimeto
His master explanatory variable is market capitalism and his dependent variable is peasant rebellion.
Previously chicken was regarded as mere peasant food, but the ever socially aspirant Portuguese saw the nobs taking an interest in the chicken stones and started to eat more chicken and chicken related products.
By the way, in those times cards were not only a means to beguile the time, but also a symbol of the society structure: hearts embodied the priests, diamonds meant the bourgeoisie, spades represented officers and aristocracy, clubs referred to the peasants.
Peasants assembled, armed themselves, and prepared to fight off the ruthless hirelings of aristocracy.
First, a counter-revolution, loyal to Church and King, was led by the nobles and the clergy and supported by staunch Catholic peasants.
The crown took other measures to make the scales of justice less weighted against the peasantry.
When I was working with landless peasants in Brazil, there was an occupation of land that we accompanied.
Vera Lopez was considered a conservative when the pope named him bishop coadjutor in 1995, but he too became an outspoken advocate of the rights of the indigenous peasants of Chiapas.
Some have asked why they play "peasant music in an affluent zip code," and their music has responded with the idea that homogeny is neither representative for our present nor characteristic of a progressive future. Modiba: Tribecastan In Manhattan Unleashes Uzbek Lutes, Pakistani Taxi Horns, And Six Foot Shepherd's Pipes
By the later 19th century historians writing of England from a European perspective often saw peasants as small freeholders, copyholders, and even farmers.
Soviet-style posters of happy storm troopers and peasant girls fondling potent sheaves fade and curl in the hot wind.
Merlin appears not only as a sorcerer and a wise man but also as a trickster. Constantly, he appears before Arthur in disguise, as a child, a beggar, an old peasant.
A goat to a poor Mexican peasant is their source of livelihood. Oh! Ouch! �Ay! The first really bad news from Mexico
At daybreak, as he awakened again and struggled to sit up, a crowd of peasants gathered around him.
I changed into a pair of black bell-bottoms and a white keyhole peasant shirt that had lace on the cuffs.
A common peasant fruit was the medlar, a now-forgotten brown fruit that must be dried called bletting before being eaten. The Fruit Hunters
But that fact hides dramatic income inequality: while wealthy citizens live luxuriously in sequestered Guatemala City neighborhoods, the poor are barely noticed, living like feudal peasants in the countryside. Hungry in Guatemala
The social upheavals and conflicts, the end of tsarist-style deference, and in particular the flow of peasants into the towns had meant that in public people were uncongenial and at home led narrow lives.
We traditional farmers are their peasants now; our job is to till the soil, wear flat caps and herd our cattle and sheep with dogs and sticks.
In some languages the speaker thinks of himself and his completed action as inseparable, as a single idea, as the Latin _edi_ for I have eaten; in others he thinks of himself subconsciously as possessing the results of his action, as our _I have eaten_; and in others, as among the Irish peasantry, he separates himself and his action entirely, as _I am after eating_. Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs
Therefore, neoteric peasant movements are the major impetus of Chinas earlier modernization.
Certainly, peasant farmers can grow food crops for export, but global food prices are too low for them to make a living.
In the field of agriculture the government now returned to a policy of socialization by pooling individual peasant farms in large concerns, such as the collective farms (kolkhoz) and the state farms (sovkhoz). 1926, July-Oct
Moreover, the peasants were organized in village communes, and they redistributed their holdings periodically among themselves, while the nobles, unlike their counterparts in western Europe, did not have alodial estates into which to consolidate their tenures. C. Russia
Corporate agriculture is turning family and peasant farmers from stewards of the land into servants, or eradicating their livelihoods completely.
He has collaborated with the Brazilian Landless Peasants Movement and with Bolivian resistance to a money-swindling dam.
The trees inhibited the growth of fodder for livestock, and many peasants destroyed or crippled the oaks in their fields.
This evening there was no sprinkling of locals to gaze at us unashamedly out of cunning, peasanty eyes. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
When he was old enough John ran barefoot with his brothers to the hedge-school, then the sole means of instruction for Catholic peasant children, who on fine days conned their lessons in a dry ditch under a hedge, and in wet weather were gathered into a rough barn. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
She confirms the theory that the shape of the loaf, suggesting a statuesque matron, gave the bread its name and that the fluted tube pan used resembles the skirt of a peasant woman.
The young peasant held the umbrella and stood undecided, with his mouth open.
That is, it is Moira that determines who shall be slave or master, peasant or warrior, citizen or non-citizen, Greek or barbarian.
For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao's China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring.
The dominant theme of this literature was concern for the well-being of the peasantry.
In 1448, soon after his return to Mainz, Gutenberg borrowed 150 gulden from Johannes Fust - at that time a sum equivalent to five years' income of an average peasant.
At the station she picked up the parcels that had come on the night train, still slightly dazed by her thoughts, picking up more stares than usual from sojourner and peasant alike.
He is the happiest,be he King or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Weary, famished and despairing at the end of 1846, the peasants of one of the most famine-ravaged counties in the country hoped for better things in the coming year.
The outer settlement was for artisans, peasants and other civilian personnel.
They gained support from the Indians and landless peasants by promising to end the abuses committed by landowners.
The old poor peasant has a family history written in blood and tears.
Half of the peasants were forced to work hard and were charged with a variety of obligations.
The Peasant household to choice the information channel, possibly receives the influences. such as the traditional custom, cognition ability, the production goal, the information authority and so on.
The peasantry prospered by clearing land until the mid-ninth century, when it began to lose ground to its aristocratic neighbours, as land sales show.
Here in Linovia they were in Swedish dominions, but there was little to be purchased, for the peasantry had been brought to ruin by the foraging parties of the Russians and Poles. A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
Grassroots peasant activists burned crops, mined and barricaded roads, derailed trains, set fire to buildings, beat up strikebreakers and punctured the tyres of blackleg drivers.
For the peasantry in particular, the periods of English occupation must have been horrific.
West of Scotland supplied with work by a benevolent aristocrat, his expectation that a grateful peasantry will bless their benefactor is rudely dashed (II, 32). Notes on 'Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism'
The old peasant said to me smilingly, A good beginning makes a good ending.
This depended on the creation of a large body of enterprising peasant farmers growing essentially cash crops.
I also visited a cooperative of peasant farmers who grow sesame seed.
Next morning the beautiful French landscape, with its fat cows and drudging peasants, was strangely quiet.
He produced a mattock out of his donkey-cart and had several peasant boys dig a hole.
In that period Mao Zedong succeeded, both theoretically and practically, in turning the peasant-and old-style-army-based troop into a new People's Army.
There's no garden feature quite so appealing and attractive to an idle peasant as a seat under a tree.
So when he went in with his dish, the peasant nudged his wife, and said: 'Grete, that is the second.' Grimm's Fairy Tales
While nobles and bourgeois owned most of the land, peasants were left in control of it.
In the distance are several low wooden peasant houses, or izbas, and a dark strip of forest indicative of the vast coniferous taiga covering much of Russia.
It was no longer the cotton skirt and peasant blouse she had been wearing.
The centrepiece of these reforms was addressed to the issue of peasant landownership.
The women, in tunics, were buxom peasants-no tall, willowy jungle princesses here; their voices, shrill and sharp, floated across the stream as they fetched water or busied themselves at the fires, with the kidneys and kedgeree, no doubt. Isabelle
His father is a peasant.
Generous peasants might find their farms overcrowded by beggars, whereas more miserly neighbors would profit from the relative quiet and safety thus brought about at no cost to themselves.
The contents were largely ‘taboo’ subjects with many hitherto unknown exposés that named hundreds of local, provincial and national officials and up to a thousand peasants.
It seems common to consider the MFDP as a group of uneducated farmers or unlettered peasants, yet it was this party and these people who put their lives on the line in one of the most courageous acts of African political expression.
On 6 April 1648 a negotiated settlement allowed the Spanish garrison to re-enter Naples, while in the countryside the baronial forces gained the upper hand over the peasants and rebel communes.

How To Use Peasant In A Sentence

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