Agricultural Change and Peasant Choice in a Thai Village / Michael Moerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moerman, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Thailand.

Agriculture.

Thailand--Rural conditions.

Thailand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1968]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I . The People and the Place

II. The Problem

III. Plow Agriculture

IV. Tractor Agriculture

V. Land Acquisition

VI. Labor Mobilization

VII. Choice in Farming

VIII. Change in Farming

APPENDIX A. Glutinous Rice: Its Distribution, Use, and Nature

APPENDIX B .Obtaining Quantitative Data

APPENDIX C. Quantitative Comparisons: Rice Farming in Ban Ping and Elsewhere

Glossary of Lue Terms

Units of Measurement

Key to Genealogical Information

Orthography

References Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520330559

0520330552

OCLC:

1163878440