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Fate and honor, family and village : demographic and cultural change in rural Italy since 1800 / Rudolph M. Bell.
LIBRA HN475 .B38
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Rudolph M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peasants--Italy.
- Peasants.
- Rural families.
- Italy.
- Rural families--Italy.
- Italy--Rural conditions.
- Rural conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1979.
- Summary:
- The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive. In Fate and Honor, Family and Village, Rudolph Bell argues against this characterization by reconstructing the complete demographic history of four country villages since 1800.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226042081 :
- OCLC:
- 4805153
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