Explore
Key Topics: agriculture X
-
Anti-Corn Law agitation, Britain, 19th century
Formed in 1839, the Anti-Corn Law League offered “free trade” as a panacea and presented itself as the ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
Argentina, Grito de Alcorta Peasant Rebellion, 1912
In June 1912, in Alcorta in the province of Santa Fé, a group of farmers declared a rural strike that ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
The Assembly of the Poor (AOP) is a large network of grassroots activists from across Thailand, comprised ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was a Nigerian nationalist and Yoruba political leader. Awolowo was an astute ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
Babeuf, François-Noël (1760–1797) and the Conspiracy of Equals
François-Noël Babeuf, better known as Gracchus Babeuf, and his Conspiracy of Equals have been a source ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
Bacon's Rebellion was the culmination of a series of events that aggravated small Virginia back-country ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
Banana Plantation Worker Rebellion, 1928
In November 1928 a strike broke out in the banana plantation region of Magdalena, Colombia, as almost ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
Britain, peasant uprisings, 16th century
During the sixteenth century England's Tudor dynasty and Scotland's Stuart dynasty suffered a number ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
China, peasant revolts in the empire
In premodern China the overwhelming majority of the population were peasants. Unlike their European counterparts, ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
-
The man proclaimed as Bolivia's first indigenous president, Juan Evo Morales Ayma , won the presidency ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest