Pre-Modern Peasant Agriculture: Rent Systems and Economic Extraction in Historical Context

This is the third piece of the fourth part of our series looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived

Last week we found that under basically ideal conditions: relatively good yields and effectively infinite land

This week we’re going to start peeling back those assumptions in light of the very small farm-sizes and capital availability our pre-modern peasants had

Looking at the subsistence of peasant agriculture by considering the productivity of our model farming families