Our forgotten past : seven centuries of life on the land / edited by Jerome Blum ; text by Jerome Blum [and others]
1982, 1st edition. New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #408708
ISBN: 0500250804
Physical description; 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index. Contents; Introduction / Jerome Blum -- The village and the family / Jerome Blum -- The nobility and the land / Jerome Blum -- From servitude to freedom / Jerome Blum -- The rural economy / Joan Thirsk -- The struggle to survive / Diedrich Saalfeld -- Rural unrest / Yves-Marie Bercé -- Rural folklore / Jacqueline Simpson -- The American farmer / William N. Parker -- The peasant in the modern world / Harvey Franklin. Subjects; Farm life History. Rural conditions. Peasants History. Agricultural classes. Agricultural laborers General works. Art Social conditions.
Price: €12.95