How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture, the blurring of rural and urban...

"This edited volume brings together contributions across multiple disciplines, weaving broad theoretical and empirical insights from Mozambique to India, Indonesia, Ecuador, Tanzania, Liberia, Cambodia, Scotland, Canada, Transylvania, Brazil, and the colonial United States. The authors draw on...