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Mafia and peasant rebellion as contrasting factors in Sicilian latifundism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Anton Blok
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The origins of the modern Sicilian latifundium go back to the early nineteenth century when feudal land was transformed by law into private property. In what is called the Risorgtmento, a rising rural bourgeoisie gradually replaced the traditional feudal elite by acquiring most of the land that came on the market. Although the peasants had become legally free, they obtained their freedom at the cost of title to the land they held under feudal conditions. The common use rights of gleaning and pasturage, which the peasants exercised on the former fiefs, guaranteed them the fundamental means of living. But arbitrarily excluded by the avid bourgeoisie from a share in the land that should be given out to them as a recompense for the lost use rights, the Sicilian peasants emerged from social servitude only to fall into economic and political dependency. A growing rural proletariat was the necessary concomitant of the partly feudal and partly capitalist enterprise that was the latifundium.

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Survivances et permanences or Continuity and Re-enactment
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , May 1969 , pp. 95 - 116
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1969

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