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

Violence and the Great Estates in the South of Italy is a powerful investigation of the appallingly grim conditions in the teeming agricultural centres of the region...Read More

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    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.

  • 0521527104
  • 9780521527101
  • Frank M. Snowden
  • 7 June 2004
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • 1st Pbk. Ed
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