Rise From Want 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.
James C. Davis is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his previously published works are A Venetian Family and its Fortune, 1500-1900 and The Decline of the Venetian Nobility as a Ruling Class.
"I certainly would recommend [this book] as an example of how to
combine written and oral sources in the unlocking of the past."
*Gay Gullickson*
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