Tabla de Contenidos: “…Peasant households under pressure : women's work and the cultivation system on Java, 1830-1870 / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk -- Peasant life courses and social mobility in serfdom : the Baltic Provinces of the Russian empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Josef Ehmer -- Escape from New York : gender and the rural safety valve, 1856-1884 / Katherine Jellison -- Landlords and sharecroppers in wine producing regions : Beaujolais, Catalonia and Tuscany, 1800-1940 / Juan Carmona and James Simpson -- Co-producers of architects : the role of farm women in the reconstruction of farmhouses in the Netherlands after the Second World War / Sophie Elpers -- Hoeing the land and shifting the cultivator : labour, land and environment in the eastern Himalayas / Debojyoti Das -- Agrarian change in the hills of northeast India : the unlikely story of shifting agriculture / A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Ivy League Ivory Tower -- An Accidental Academic -- Dowry Drama -- Dissertation Dilemma -- Escape from New York -- Reflections -- Chapter 7 Boston Blues -- Out of Africa -- An Unblessed Marriage -- Nightmare on Commonwealth Avenue -- Reflections -- Chapter 8 A New Beginning -- The "Prodigal" Son Returns -- A Mentor at Last -- Standing Up for Myself -- A Growing Family -- Awakening My Creative Side -- Reflections -- Chapter 9 Back to Boston -- New Millennium, New Challenges -- My Winter of Discontent -- Good Thing, Bad Thing - Who Knows? …”