Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile - Mobility and Migration in Everyday Rural Life

Klappentext This 1996 book is aq revisionary study which establishes that pre-industrial village society was dynamic and migratory. Zusammenfassung This 1996 book shatters the disproven but persistent myth of the closed immobile village with sedentary populations in the early modern period. Professor Vassberg demonstrates through many fascinating case-studies that even in traditionalist Spain! villagers were highly migratory! and had frequent contact with the outside world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The village community; 2. Market contacts with the outside world; 3. Manufacturing and artisanal contacts with the outside world; 4. In-migration and out-migration; 5. Family relations with the outside world; 6. Relations with the state; 7. Contacts with travellers and 'aliens'; 8. Additional contacts with the outside world; Conclusion.

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• Authors: David E. Vassberg, David E. (University of Texas Pan Americ Vassberg, Vassberg David E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521563253
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56325-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Spain, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Rural communities, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, HISTORY / Europe / Spain