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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    13 October 2009
    16 February 1989
    ISBN:
    9780511523533
    9780521306638
    9780521034166
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523533
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.7kg, 344 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.522kg, 344 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (8)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (8)
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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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