Search Results: rise from want a peasant family by davis james c

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

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

U.S.A.: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. U.S.A.: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light to moderate wear around the extremities of the book and the dust jacket. A nice copy.

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

PA: Univ of PA, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Tiny tearing on top spine end. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1986-01-29. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection. hardcover. New. 6x0x9.