: Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village . Paul Friedrich.

The Bioenergy Village Movement in Germany – Agrarian Backwardness or Future Oriented Re-organisation of the Energy System?

Germany is in the process of transforming its system of electricity generation and distribution. Th e transformation process was advanced by a number of civil society actors keen on dismantling the old centralised, undemocratic, environmentally unsound and unhealthy system, and replacing it with a new one, closer to the people, decentralised and using renewable energies. One type of transformat...

The revolt of youth: some historical comparisons.

The existence of a youth problem appears to many a phenomenon peculiarly characteristic of our own time. In fact, in the United States over the past fifty years almost each generation has produced distinctive young rebels-the bohemians before and after World War I, the radicals of the thirties and forties, the beatniks and hipsters of the fifties, and the hippies and romantic anarcho-marxists o...

Boserup and Agrarian Ecology

Georg Friedrich Händel's strokes.

Georg Friedrich Händel was a musical giant and probably the first composer to be the manager and promoter of his own works. The story of his life and illnesses is full of myths, invented and embellished by various biographies. Existing pathographies written by authors from various specialities suggested he suffered from psychiatric diseases like cyclothymia or mania and rheumatologic disorders ...

Albania's radical agrarian reform.

The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivizat...