Early Modern Italy is a fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Covering the whole of the Peninsula from the Venetian Republic, to Florence, through to Naples it shows how the huge economic, cultural and social divides of the period still affect the stability of present day united Italy.This is an essential guide to one of the most vibrant yet tempestuous periods of Italian history.
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A fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
1 Disunited Italy Unity and disunity; The chronology and developments of early modern Italy 2 Geography and demography 3 The changing rural and urban economies 4 The land and rural society 5 The urban environment 6 Urban society 7 The family and household 8 The social elites 9 Social groupings and loyalties 10 Parochial society 11 Social tensions, control and amelioration Social amelioration 12 Epilogue
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'In preparing this book, Christopher Black has handled an impressive range of publications covering some three centuries of various aspects of Italian social history...students, scholars and teachers of the period will be grateful for a helpful introductory discussion of a wide range of topics, which the bibliography will prove very useful for developing.' - Peter Laven, English Historical Review, June 2002'This is a useful guide to recent developments in social history across Italy as a whole.' - History
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415109352
Publisert
2000-11-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
720 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
304
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