Far from the Church Bells: Settlement and Society in an Apulian Town.

Abstract

List of plates List of figures List of tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I. The Remembered Present: 2. Work and the crowded countryside 3. Inside Locorotondo Part II. The Documented Past: 4. Settlement and economy under the waning old order 5. Society and terminal feudalism 6. Rural settlement in the nineteenth century 7. How peasants populated the countryside Part III. Emergent Social and Political Patterns: 8. Rural social structure 9. Town and country 10. Some comparisons Appendices Notes Glossary of Italian and dialect terms Bibliography Index.