Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations, and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Serfs' Niches -- 2 Bare Survival -- 3 The Waning of the Old Order -- 4 Ripple Effects -- 5 Surplus People -- 6 A Peasant in the Machine Age -- 7 Slots for Proletarians -- 8 Becoming Modern -- 9 Costs of War -- 10 Tarnished Miracle -- A Suggestion About the Larger Picture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Rise From Want explores the ways in which a family of poor peasants from the Karst plateau above Trieste, Italy, lived through the great changes brought about by industrialization and modernization
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In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
