Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Peasant Livelihoods and the Agrarian Question -- 1. The agrarian question: peasants and rural change / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristobal Kay -- Pt. 2. Historical Perspectives on Agrarian Change -- 2. Peasants and the market imperative: the origins of capitalism / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- 3. The landlord class, peasant differentiation, class struggle and the transition to capitalism: England, France and Prussia compared / Terence J. Byres -- 4. Nineteenth century imperialism and structural transformation in colonized countries / Amiya Kumar Bagchi -- 5. The invisible hand and the visible foot: peasants, dispossession and globalization / Farshad Araghi -- 6. Peasant struggles for land and agrarian reform in Latin America / Miguel Teubal -- Pt. 3. Contemporary Perspectives on Agrarian Change -- 7. The globalization of manufacturing production: Warrenite fantasies and uneven and unequal realities / Ray Kiely -- 8. Gender justice, land and the agrarian question in Southern Africa / Bridget O'Laughlin -- 9. The political economy of land and the agrarian question in an era of neoliberal globalization / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristobal Kay and Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. -- 10. Agrarian questions from transition to globalization / Henry Bernstein -- 11. Southern question: agrarian questions of labour and capital / Michael I. Watts -- 12. Food sovereignty, social reproduction and the agrarian question / Philip McMichael -- Pt. 4. Agrarian Question, Past and Present -- 13. Neoliberal globalization, the traits of rural accumulation and rural politics: the agrarian question in the twenty-first century / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristobal Kay.