Overview
- Examines the development of social support systems in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy
- Highlights welfare and micro-credit activities in the political and socio-economic panorama in rural Italy
- Verifies the structured support system influenced the establishment of local identity of individuals
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
This book examines the development of social support systems in the Modern age in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy. This investigation achieves two main purposes: first, it allows researchers to understand the role occupied concretely by welfare and micro-credit activities in the political and socio-economic panorama of rural Northern Italy; secondly, it verifies to what extent the formation of a more or less structured support system influenced the establishment of local identity and the rooting of individuals. The book brings together perspectives from different fields of research ranging from economic and political history to the study of the history of ecclesiastical institutions, as well as integrating recent research on the anthropological value of welfare actions and the use of multiple historical sources. It considers how the retreat of the welfare activity of the State, associated with a depopulation of the rural areas of the peninsula and a steady increase of poverty into social fringes that were previously not affected by economic problems, pushes us to investigate more carefully the dynamics that in the Ancien Régime gave shape to the support activities against indigence and poverty. This book will be of interest to academics and students working in economic history and social history.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (11 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giovanni Gregorini is Full Professor of Economic History and head of the Department of History and Philology at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, where he teaches Economic History and Business History.
Luciano Maffi is a Lecturer in Economic and Global History at the University of Parma, Italy. He also teaches Economic History at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy.
Marco Rochini is a Research Fellow at the Institute for History of Mediterranean Europe (National Research Council, Italy) and Adjunct Professor in Hagiography at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Support Systems in Rural Italy
Book Subtitle: The Modern Age Regional States of the Northern Peninsula
Editors: Giovanni Gregorini, Luciano Maffi, Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24303-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24302-8Published: 03 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24305-9Published: 21 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24303-5Published: 02 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 308
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, History of Italy, Social History, Economics, general