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... peasants , working with mounted Cossacks , ha- rassed the French until they had been driven out . Guerrilla warfare , in both its independent and its com- plementary roles , has been employed extensively since the time of Napoleon . A ...
... peasants , working with mounted Cossacks , ha- rassed the French until they had been driven out . Guerrilla warfare , in both its independent and its com- plementary roles , has been employed extensively since the time of Napoleon . A ...
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... Peasantry The one remaining category of non - urban society is the peasant . Peasants are not nomadic but sedentary ( thus distinguishable from both hunting - gathering societies and pastoralists ) ; they are not horticultural tribal ...
... Peasantry The one remaining category of non - urban society is the peasant . Peasants are not nomadic but sedentary ( thus distinguishable from both hunting - gathering societies and pastoralists ) ; they are not horticultural tribal ...
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... PEASANTRY Peasants have sometimes exploded with pent - up mass violence . Such revolts occurred in late medieval times in western Europe , feudal Japan , and in the 19th century in tsarist Russia and Manchu China , to cite only the more ...
... PEASANTRY Peasants have sometimes exploded with pent - up mass violence . Such revolts occurred in late medieval times in western Europe , feudal Japan , and in the 19th century in tsarist Russia and Manchu China , to cite only the more ...
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