Rise From Want: A Peasant Family in the Machine Age.

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray cloth binding; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Notes, bibliography, index. Green endpapers. Description: Seventeen black and white illustrations. This ''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. The book is a careful and imaginative reconstruction of the lives of some humble and illiterate people who left behind them few traces of their existence. Through a gripping narrative of the Zuzek family, Davis explores the social changes that accompanied the peasant's 'rise from want.' During the Middle Ages, the first Zuzeks were serfs of the lords in the nearby castle of Duino. Two centuries ago the Zuzeks were feed from serfdom, but for another hundred years they continued to be poor and illiterate. In recent decades they have left the land.''