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This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists. The book therefore deals at length with such problems as the causes and consequences of emigration and patterns of marriage and inheritance in favouring or hampering the adjustments of local populations to changing economic or ecological circumstances, and tackles the vexed question of the relative importance of cultural and environmental factors in shaping family forms and community structures. Although its foundation lies in a long period of anthropological fieldwork conducted in an Alpine community, Upland Communities relies on the methods and conceptual tools of historical demography. Combined with a long-term historical perspective, its broad comparative approach unveils an unexpected diversity in regional and spatial demographic patterns and questions a number of deep-rooted but ultimately misleading notions concerning mountain society and its alleged backwardness in the past.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Upland Communities
• Subtitle: Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century
• Author: Pier Paolo Viazzo
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9780521034166
• ISBN: 0521034167
• ID: 02019290
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 151 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2006

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