Sentence examples for condition of the peasantry from inspiring English sources

The social condition of the peasantry also changed.

Whether the term serfdom appropriately describes the condition of the peasantry in other contexts is a matter of vigorous contention.

In 1786 he persuaded Crown Prince Frederick (later Frederick VI) to create an agrarian commission to study the conditions of the peasantry as a whole.

It also reinforced the servile status of the peasantry, thus leading to a further deterioration of their condition.

The servile status of the peasantry increased.

The conditions of the free peasantry worsened over time, their growing obligations tending increasingly toward serfdom.

He was a foremost fighter for the reform of the conditions of the Hungarian peasantry, setting the example on his own estates.

He acknowledged that despite his pledge to transform the condition of China's peasantry when he took office in 1998, farmers still faced glutted grain markets, sliding prices, slow or even negative income growth and a heavy tax burden.

The lot of the peasantry improved.

The situation of the peasantry was thoroughly unfavourable.

The subsequent organization of the army and assembling of the peasantry laid the ground for the later uprising of the Hungarian peasantry.