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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-06 - Publisher: Routledge
This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical change
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Pages: 247
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Pages: 189
Pages: 189
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Rural Inventions looks at the transformation of rural France in the 1950s and 1960s when rapid modernization and explosive economic growth drove peasants from t
Language: en
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Pages: 241
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