Rise From Want A Peasant Family in the Machine Age by Davis, James C - 1986

University of Pennsylvania Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

University of Pennsylvania Press. Used - Like New. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0812280342 . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 165 pages .

Pennsylvania. Used - Very Good. 1986. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0812280342 . INSCRIBED by the author. .

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1986-11. Hardcover. Good.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986-01-29. Hardcover. Like New. Never read, no marks or highlighting in the book. Our copy is hardback with a dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0812280342 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray cloth binding; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Notes, bibliography, index. Green endpapers. Description: Seventeen black and white illustrations. This ''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. The book is a careful and imaginative reconstruction of the lives of some humble and illiterate people who left behind them few traces of their existence. Through a gripping narrative of the Zuzek family, Davis explores the social changes that accompanied the peasant's 'rise from want.' During the Middle Ages, the first Zuzeks were serfs of the lords in the nearby castle of Duino. Two centuries ago the Zuzeks were feed from serfdom, but for another hundred years they continued to be poor and illiterate. In recent decades… Read More