List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 'Agrarian Reform and Resistance in Global Perspective' 1. Agricultural Modernisation during the Long Nineteenth Century: Connections, Comparisons, and Commodity Frontiers (Joe Regan and Cathal Smith) Section I 'Land and Labour in the Americas' 2. Living with Sugar: Small Farmers and the Challenge of Expanding Sugar Plantations in Campinas - Brazil, 1774-1830 (Laura Fraccaro) 3. The General Strike: W.E.B. DuBois's Interpretation of Slave Resistance during the American Civil War (James Oakes) 4. Agrarian Modernisation in Chiapas, Mexico: Reform, Resistance, and Revolution, 1876-1911 (Sarah Washbrook) Section II 'Transatlantic Agrarian Comparisons and Connections' 5. Agrarian Resistance to Modernisation and Nation-Building in the Confederate South and Southern Italy: East Tennessee vs. Northern Terra di Lavoro in 1861 (Enrico Dal Lago) 6. Natural Harmony and 'True Civilisation': The Ideological Impact of the Irish Land League on Anglo-American Liberalism( Andrew Phemister) 7. Books and Dirt in a Transatlantic World: Negotiating Agricultural Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Maine and Westphalia (Justus Hillebrand) Section III 'Agronomy Within and Beyond the Euro-American World' 8. Agricultural Education in Nineteenth-Century Hungary: A Response to the Challenges of the 'Age of Modern Globalisation' (Zsuzsi Kiss) 9. From European Roots to Australian Wine: International Exchanges of Agricultural Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century Australian Wine Industry (Chelsea Davis) 10. From the Western to the Eastern Model of Cash Crop Production: Colonial Agronomy and the Global Influence of Dutch Java's Buitenzorg Laboratories, 1880s-1930s (Florian Wagner) Section IV 'European Rural Politics and Institutions' 11. What is a Peasant Movement For? Making Sense of Rural European Political Responses to Globalisation Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Daniel Brett) 12. Turning the Landless into Socialists: Agrarian Reforms and Resistance as Drivers of Political Mobilisation in Finland, 1880-1914 (Sami Suodenjoki) 13. Learning to Make Irish Agriculture Modern: Civil Society Elites, the State, and Learning Coping with the Challenges of Globalisation in the 1890s (Tony Varley) 14. Horace Plunkett, Co-operation, and an Irish Solution to the Transnational Problem of Rural Life, 1894-1921 (Patrick Doyle) Index