Disunited Italy -- Geography and demography -- The changing rural and urban economies -- The land and rural society -- The urban environment -- Urban society -- The family and household -- The social elites -- Social groupings and loyalties -- Parochial society -- Social tensions, control and amelioration -- Epilogue
Summary
"Early Modern Italy: A Social History is a survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment." "Early Modern Italy covers the whole of the Italian peninsula from the Venetian Republic, Milan and Florence to Rome, Naples and the rural Italy of Calabria and Campagna." "Early Modern Italy is crucial to the understanding of the diversity, conflicts and incompatibilities from the past that still affect the stability and fragility of united Italy today."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-265) and index
