Far from the Church Bells : Settlement and Society in an Apulian Town (Hardcover)

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.