Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

Infobox_Book | name = Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century


author = Eric Wolf
cover_artist =
publisher = Harper Torchbooks, University of Oklahoma Press
release_date = 1969, 1999
media_type = Paperback, Hardback
pages = 328 (2nd edition, paperback)
size_weight =
isbn = ISBN 0-8061-3196-9 (Paperback edition)

Written in 1969 by Eric Wolf, "Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century", is a comparative view of the peasant revolutions of Mexico, Russia, China, Vietnam, Algeria, and Cuba.


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