They are winemakers both by choice and by tradition, working 86 acres of vineyards in six different municipalities; all small peasant properties ... of Semivicoli, at 1,200’ above sea level ...

I've never been to the countryside, so I couldn't be a peasant. All I could be is a ... She earns about 10,000 yuan, or $1,200 a year, making her one of the richest people in the village.

At a time when Russia’s archaic feudal system was creaking under pressure to reform, the Kropotkin family ‘owned’ nearly 1,200 peasant labourers, or serfs. According to his memoirs, the young ...

In my new book, The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, I explore how peasant movements in eastern Europe during the first half of the 20th century often ...

In my new book, The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, I explore how peasant movements in eastern Europe during the first half of the 20th century often ...

A rapidly spreading wildfire in Barnegat Township, New Jersey, has forced mandatory evacuations as it consumes 1,200 acres. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service reports the fire is uncontained ...

The Chinese foreign ministry has called the United States Vice President, JD Vance “ignorant and impolite”. China was reacting to Vance’s comment that US has been borrowing money from ...

"OH thou great All-Russian Sphinx, it is not easy to be thy Oedipus." Thus Ivan Turgeniev apostrophized the Russian peasant. And a sphinx the peasant has been, even since the educated classes of the ...

Wealthier merchants, for example, were charged double the poll tax rate and five times the property rate of a free peasant. However, in reality, it resulted in significantly higher rates of income ...