As in so many other parts of Europe, the northern Italian community of Casalecchio experienced massive social and economic changes in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Characterized by sharecropping agriculture and large, complex family households, the community faced the effects of industrialization, urbanization and dramatic political changes. The book represents an interdisciplinary effort to discover how changes in family life and demographic behaviour actually occurred in this crucial period, and how people's lives were affected. The book takes issue with a number of influential demographic and sociological theories dealing with the evolution of the western family and the factors responsible for fertility decline.
- ISBN10 0299121909
- ISBN13 9780299121907
- Publish Date 30 November 1989
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English