Arguing that social movements can be explained and understood only in a
comparative historical perspective and not in terms of immediate social
or political conditions, the author identifies the causes of the Land
War in the evolution of social structure and collective action in the
Irish countryside over the course of the nineteenth century.
Originally published in 1979.
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