 | Rise From Want: A Peasant Family in the Machine Age Subjects: Peasantry -- Yugoslavia -- Slovenia -- Case studies; Zuzek family; Peasantry -- Karst (Yugoslavia and Italy); Karst (Yugoslavia and Italy) -- Social conditions; Karst (Yugoslavia and Italy) -- Economic conditions; 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. James C. Davis is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his previously published works are A Venetian Family and its Fortune, 1500-1900 and The Decline of the Venetian Nobility as a Ruling Class. |
