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Book Synopsis.- 1. Introduction; Sorin Radu, Ovidiu Buruiana, Andrei Sora.- 2. Reforming the Land and the Peasant after 1800: How to Make National Peasantries; Eric Vanhaute.- 3. Peasants in Romania’s First Capitalist Modernity: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective; Cornel Ban.- 4. Peasants' Migration, Social Mobility, and National Identity in a Post-Serfdom Society: Upper Silesia between the 1850s and 1930s; Andrzej Michalczyk.- 5. How Peasants Went to the Bank: An Introduction to the 'Educational' Activities of the Peasants’ Land Bank in the Late Russian Empire; Arina Fedorova.- 6. Vote Masaryk! High Politics and a Reversal at the Municipal Level: The Case of Zlín in the Early Twentieth Century; Milan Repa.- 7. Peasants, Mobilization, and Ethnic Politics in the Hungarian-Romanian Borderlands; Anders Blomqvist.- 8. ???????The 'Peasant Class' and the 'Agricultural Estate': Agrarian Populism and its Social Subjects in Interwar Galicia and Bohemia; Lucian George???????.- 9. ???????Having it Both Ways: Preserving an Idyllic Rural Universe and Overcoming Backwardness by the ?Right’ School-Education; Wilfried Göttlicher.- 10. ???????Disability in the Interwar Romanian Village: Peasants, Teachers, Priests, and Miracles; Maria Bucur.- 11. "The Silent World": The Romanian State and the Political Integration of Peasants during the Interwar Period; Radu, Buruiana, Sora.- 12. ???????Degrees of Crisis: The Romanian Countryside during the Great Depression; Anca Mândru.- 13. The Peasant Sociology of Ferenc Erdei; Nigel Swain.- 14.??????? Conclusion; Constantin Iordachi.
