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Author Schneider, Jane, 1938-

Title Festival of the poor : fertility decline & the ideology of class in Sicily, 1860-1980 / Jane C. Schneider, Peter T. Schneider
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1996]
©1996

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 W'PONDS  304.63209458 Sch/Fot  AVAILABLE
Description x, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Series Hegemony and experience
Hegemony and experience.
Contents 1. Population and Poverty: Can Everyone Belong? -- 2. The Demography and Political Economy of Rapid Population Growth -- 3. Rapid Population Growth in Sicily, 1868 to 1890 -- 4. Late-Nineteenth-Century Population Dynamics of Villamaura's Social Classes -- 5. Depression, Migration, and the Differentiation of Demographic Regimes -- 6. Coitus Interruptus -- 7. Theories of the European Fertility Decline -- 8. Alternative Ways to Think About Culture and Population -- 9. The Second Great Depression: Artisans, Peasants, and "Overpopulation" -- 10. The Bracciante Transition -- 11. Festival of the Poor: Classism and Demographic Transition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-312) and index
Subject Fertility, Human -- Italy -- Sicily -- History.
Poor -- Italy -- Sicily -- History.
SUBJECT Sicily (Italy) -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122242
Author Schneider, Peter T., 1933-
LC no. 95041768
ISBN 0816515190
0816515441