| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 218 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Series |
Italian and Italian American studies |
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Italian and Italian American studies.
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| Contents |
Part I: Governance -- The Community -- The Coppoli Fief -- Part II: Coexistence -- Sociability -- Collaboration -- Part III: Competition -- A Civil Arena -- Criminal Process -- The Gravity of Crimes -- Profiles in Crime -- Part IV: Reproduction -- Sexual Destinies -- Workable Families -- Passing On -- Part V: Invention -- Economic Collapse -- The Church Triumphant -- Making Tuscans |
| Summary |
Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us. This fascinating study springs from the conviction that the building blocks of human life are universal: hierarchy and political participation; co-operation and competition, reproduction, invention, and adaptation. The author argues, however, that individual emotions, thought processes, and social predicaments are always set in specific times and places |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociology, Rural -- Italy -- Tuscany -- History -- 17th century
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Human beings -- Animal nature.
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Human beings -- Animal nature.
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Social conditions
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Sociology, Rural.
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| SUBJECT |
Tuscany (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 17th century
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| Subject |
Italy -- Tuscany.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230603035 |
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0230603033 |
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128136164X |
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9781281361646 |
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9781349537693 |
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1349537691 |
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