<P><B>A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work</B><BR/><BR/><I>On the Rural</I> is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy, presenting a wide-ranging approach to understanding the historical and rural sociology of precapitalist social forms, their endurance today, and conditions of dispossession and uneven development. </P><P>In <I>On the Rural</I>, Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book <I>Du rural à l’urbain</I> and supplementary texts, two of which are largely unknown conference presentations published outside France. <I>On the Rural</I> offers methodological orientations for addressing questions of economy, sociology, and geography by deploying insights from spatial political economy to