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Fate, Honor, Family and Village Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800
By Rudolph M. Bell
Copyright 1979
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. He analyzes births, marriages, and deaths in terms of four concepts that capture more accurately and... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Setting; 3: Past; 4: Time; 5: Family; 6: Work; 7: Space; 8: Migration; 9: Epilogue: Future
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Rudolph M. Bell
