Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates: Society in Traditional Calabria
The nature of traditional societies in Mediterranean countries and the effect on those societies brought about in the twentieth century, have long been debated; but in general these debates has started from an assumption of the relatively homogenous nature of traditional peasant society. In this book Pino Arlacchi demolishes that assumption by demonstrating that within the Italian region of Calabria there existed not one but a range of 'traditional' societies. This book will be of interest to...
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Introduction; 1. The Cosentino; 2. The society of permanent transition of the Plain of Giolia Tauro; 3. The system of latifondo of the Crotonese; Conclusions; Index.
