10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERFLIKE»
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serflike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
serflike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican ...
In one case 800 colonists at Solduz dominated 4,000 to 5,000 families of serflike
sharecroppers and farm workers of various nationalities, including Kurds and
Turks. The domination of the serflike peasants and agrarian workers was harsh; ...
2
A Handbook of the Troubadours
And I remain a true serf to the adroit, joyful and pleasant creature whom they [my
eyes and my heart] obey, or the line where the poet-lover describes himself in the
service of Amor as "humils, francs, sers e leials" (humble, generous, serflike, ...
F R P Akehurst, Judith M Davis, 1995
3
Rural Society in Southeast India
These peasants retained the kllvaram, or lower share, and paid the revenue, or
upper share, in cash or kind to the royal revenue officials. The class also included
serflike tenants (kudiyar) who held lands communally on vdram ("share") tenure ...
4
Experiencing World History
The state distributed helots to different Spartans in a serflike arrangement where
the helots owed their overlords half of the crops they produced. Similar systems
of serflike populations could be found on Crete and in Thessaly and other Greek
...
Paul Vauthier Adams, 2000
5
Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico: The Brief and Summary ...
By the time of the Conquest, landlessness and tenant farming appear to have
become very widespread, with serflike peasants forming perhaps the majority of
the Aztec population. These peasants enjoyed only the usufruct of the land and ...
6
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
In Athens, the dependence of the serflike hektemoroi was one of the main factors
contributing to social conflicts and urging radical measures, including the
abolition of debt bondage (Wallace, chapter 3 below). According to Aristotle (
Politics ...
Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, 2007
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The Western Literary Magazine and Journal of Education, ...
Without it, community will everywhere be divided either into small classes of
aristocratic, " purse-proud, elbowing " independents, on the one hand, or, on the
other, into large masses of cringing, serflike, spiritless menials, who have neither
...
8
Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the New Hampshire ...
It gives that full development of the powers which makes, not merely an
agricultural or mechanical drudge, a serflike appendage of the farm or the work-
shop,.but an intelligent man — a citizen, worthy, in all respects, of his American
birth-right.
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts. Board of Trustees, 1867
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The North of England magazine [afterw.] The North of England ...
... however, the sliding scale is fast breaking down,) and have they not, in some
measure, brought it upon themselves by attacking them, when their object ought
to have been the landlord ; showing the former the serflike position in which he is
...
10
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the ...
They produced surplus food for African elites and looked after their own
subsistence.39 In a somewhat idealized portrait, the French explorer Gaspard
Mollien provides an understanding of some of the serflike rights these satellite
slave ...
Judith Ann Carney, Richard Nicholas Rosomoff, 2011
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERFLIKE»
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serflike is used in the context of the following news items.
The end of chicken
... affected 634 people), water contamination from massive piles of bird poop and serflike working conditions for growers (as exposed by comedian John Oliver). «Al Jazeera America, Jul 15»
Govs, help these people
... New York and New Jersey must force wage and benefits improvements for employees at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports to end the serflike poverty ... «New York Daily News, Jan 14»
GMO Proponents versus Opponents
... some contend, reduce people to serflike status. In the pouring rain, on Memorial Day weekend, 300 to 350 people—according to march organizers—protested ... «Montpelier Bridge, Jun 13»
Killing for Tenure
Graduate students lead a serflike existence of impoverishment and debt pursuing the Ph.D., and they spend equally grueling post-doctoral years until that most ... «American Thinker, Feb 10»
The Creativity Conceit
The implication is obvious: A few brilliant, creative Americans did the real work, while low-skilled Chinese assembly workers, laboring in serflike conditions, did ... «Utne Reader Online, Jun 08»
When the Studios Called the Shots, and the Close-Ups
Although it is no secret that actors entered into serflike bondage, who knew that Gene Tierney battled long and hard to retain contractual control of her own teeth ... «New York Times, Nov 07»
The Mexican Connection
The United States is the largest source of remittances—Saudi Arabia, with its armies of serflike guest workers, is No. 2—and Mexico the largest recipient of U.S. ... «Atlantic Online, Mar 07»
