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Altopascio: A Study in Tuscan Rural Society, 1587-1784 Revised Edition
Contributor(s): McArdle, Frank (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521023076     ISBN-13: 9780521023078
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2005
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Annotation: This is an interdisciplinary study of a large Italian estate which belonged to the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany. The Medici administrators kept detailed records of the activities of their subjects and these have been used by the author to analyse the demographic, social, economic and political history of the village. The records cover two centuries, which span a harsh economic depression and the ?general crisis? of the seventeenth century. An aim of the book is to gauge the impact of the general European crisis upon a regional society, and to assess the contribution of agrarian economic and social trends towards that crisis. It analyses the broad issues of population change, economic performance and social organization within a rural community, demonstrating how the contractual relationships between landlord and tenant selectively distributed the effects of the economic crisis, and how the strong economic bonds that linked lord and peasant helped to control the dogged resistance for which the people of Altopascio were notorious.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Western Europe - General
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
Dewey: 307.762
LCCN: 2006277348
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.79 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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This is an interdisciplinary study of a large Italian estate which belonged to the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany. The Medici administrators kept detailed records of the activities of their subjects and these have been used by the author to analyse the demographic, social, economic and political history of the village. The records cover two centuries, which span a harsh economic depression and the 'general crisis' of the seventeenth century. An aim of the book is to gauge the impact of the general European crisis upon a regional society, and to assess the contribution of agrarian economic and social trends towards that crisis. It analyses the broad issues of population change, economic performance and social organization within a rural community, demonstrating how the contractual relationships between landlord and tenant selectively distributed the effects of the economic crisis, and how the strong economic bonds that linked lord and peasant helped to control the dogged resistance for which the people of Altopascio were notorious.
 
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