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1 online resource (xxxiii, 427 pages) : maps |
Summary |
This work is the winner of the American Historical Association Marraro Prize, 1988. "The Mountains and the City" is a rare discussion in English of the history of a region of Europe, a genre common in other countries but undeveloped in Britain. The book deals with two mountain valleys in Tuscany from the eight to the twelfth century, with some examination of their future progress into the sixteenth. It charts their internal social and economic development and their links with the emerging world of the Italian city states. The importance of the book is in its stress on the small-scale society of the mountains; on the relation of local society to its geographical environment; and, above all, in its concern to see society from below, through the activities of local people, rather than through the interests of their masters. In its focus on local interaction, this is one of the few anthropological studies of medieval history that has yet been written |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-409) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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Vroege middeleeuwen.
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SUBJECT |
Garfagnana (Italy) -- History
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Garfagnana (Italy) -- Social conditions
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Garfagnana (Italy) -- Economic conditions
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Casentino Valley (Italy) -- History
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Casentino Valley (Italy) -- Social conditions
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Casentino Valley (Italy) -- Economic conditions
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Italy -- Casentino Valley
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Italy -- Garfagnana
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780198219668 |
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0198219660 |
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1280806362 |
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9781280806360 |
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