Rise from Want

by James C. Davis

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812280342
• ISBN13: 9780812280340
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"