Violence and the Great Estates in the South of Italy: Apulia, 1900-1922

by Frank M. Snowden III

Book Overview

Until Italian unification, vast areas of Apulia were an uninhabited sheep walk. In the late nineteenth century this frontier area was settled and agro-business established. In the quasi-colonial context of the South of Italy, the relations between landowners and farm workers were characterized by extreme forms of oppression and brutality. This book is a study of the world the landlords made and of the harsh structures of profit, tenure, and climate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521527104
• ISBN13: 9780521527101
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"