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Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and Their Saint, 1200-1800
Lester Little
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Description for Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and Their Saint, 1200-1800
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC1; HBLH; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late-medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual sources. In this first ever reconstruction of the forgotten metier of wine porter, topography plays a key role in forming the labour market; in the scramble to distinguish professionals from manual labourers the term artist gets divorced from lowly artisan, and wretched diet is invoked to explain why workers are so unintelligent; the wine porters make ... Read more
Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late-medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual sources. In this first ever reconstruction of the forgotten metier of wine porter, topography plays a key role in forming the labour market; in the scramble to distinguish professionals from manual labourers the term artist gets divorced from lowly artisan, and wretched diet is invoked to explain why workers are so unintelligent; the wine porters make ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526116697
SKU
V9781526116697
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Ref
99-15
About Lester Little
Lester K. Little is Professor Emeritus of History at Smith College and a former Director of the American Academy in Rome -- .
Reviews for Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and Their Saint, 1200-1800
'The book is a sheer delight, perfect for leisure reading by all historians no matter their chronological or geographic specialization, a testament to the joys of what we do.' - Rudolph M. Bell, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Journal of Social History June 2016 'It is a welcome contribution to his already-renowned scholarship and a tribute to a ... Read more