Latifundium: Moral Economy and Material Life in a European Periphery

by Marta Petrusewicz

Latifundium documents the history of the aristocratic Barracco family, together with its estate and employees, in nineteenth-century Italy.Marta Petrusewicz's study shows the Barracco estate's transformation from a feudal system to a capitalistic one. The author also demonstrates that a market economy in south Italy existed before the unification of the Italian state, and she thereby disproves the dependency theory held by some Italian economists.Not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472103423
• ISBN13: 9780472103423
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"