Violence and the Great Estates in the South of Italy - Apulia, 1900-1922 (Paperback, New Ed)

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 they faced. It is also a powerful investigation of the appallingly grim conditions in the teeming agricultural centres of the region and a vivid history of the struggle by the farm workers to win the ordinary decencies of life - clothes, clean water, and bread. In the process, the labourers formed a potent anarcho-syndicalist movement whose history the book relates from the first general strikes in 1901 to the restoration of the landlords' power by fascist terror in 1922.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	1986
Authors:	Frank M. Snowden
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-52710-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-521-52710-4
Barcode:	9780521527101

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