8 sentences with 'peasantry'
Example sentences and phrases with the word peasantry and other words derived from it.
• « In most cases, from Sweden to Austria, monarchs made compromises with their nobles that benefited both sides, usually at the expense of the peasantry. »
• « In some cases, they were able to reduce the power and independence of some of their nobles by supporting even more onerous control of the peasantry: for example, in Bohemia, peasants were forced to work three days a week for their nobles, free of charge, and in return the Bohemian nobles allowed the emperor greater control over their own territory. »
• « They also relentlessly taxed the peasantry: royal taxes doubled in France between 1630 and 1650, and the concomitant peasant uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed. »
• « During the Middle Ages, the Third Estate was represented by the wealthy elites of the cities and large towns, and the peasantry, despite being the majority of the population, had no representation at all. »
• « Perhaps most importantly, nobles everywhere paid few taxes, especially in comparison to the taxes, duties and rents that plagued the peasantry. »
• « Thus, the nobility was in increasing conflict with the peasantry, largely because the former sought to extract more wealth from the latter. »
• « Lavalle's troops disbanded the militias formed by the peasantry and while Rosas marched to Santa Fe in search of help, ex-Governor Dorrego was taken prisoner by military chiefs he believed to be loyal. »
• « While the Federalist statesmen, like the architects of the federal Constitution of 1787, feared pure democracy, Jefferson was much more optimistic that the ordinary American peasant could be trusted to make good decisions. He believed in majority rule, that is, that the majority of the peasantry should have the power to make decisions binding on the whole. »