Patrons and adversaries : nobles and villagers in Italian politics, 1640-1760 /

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Author / Creator:Castiglione, Caroline.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11141120
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ISBN:1423746082
9781423746089
128042818X
9781280428180
9780198038764
0198038763
1602565104
9781602565104
9786610428182
6610428182
0195173872
0195173864
9780195173864
9780195173871
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
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Summary:Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its "vassals", clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers sometimes cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted it through the strategies of adversarial literacy, political ways of reading and writing that challenged noble hegemony in the village.
Other form:Print version: Castiglione, Caroline. Patrons and adversaries. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005 0195173864 0195173872