Violence and the Great Estates in the South of Italy : Apulia, 1900-1922 Paperback / softback
by Frank M. Snowden
Paperback / softback
Description
Until Italian unification, vast areas of Apulia were an uninhabited sheep walk.
In the late nineteenth century this frontier area was settled and agro-business established.
In the quasi-colonial context of the South of Italy, the relations between landowners and farm workers were characterized by extreme forms of oppression and brutality.
This book is a study of the world the landlords made and of the harsh structures of profit, tenure, and climate they faced.
It is also a powerful investigation of the appallingly grim conditions in the teeming agricultural centres of the region and a vivid history of the struggle by the farm workers to win the ordinary decencies of life - clothes, clean water, and bread.
In the process, the labourers formed a potent anarcho-syndicalist movement whose history the book relates from the first general strikes in 1901 to the restoration of the landlords' power by fascist terror in 1922.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/06/2004
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- ISBN:9780521527101
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/06/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521527101