Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800
by
Rudolph M. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
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...