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The Latifundia and the Imperial

Marta Petrusewicz discusses her study of the nineteenth-century latifundia, or centralized estates, using the example of the aristocratic Barracco family who lived in the Calabria region of southern Italy. In the second segment [14:20], Bernard Semmel, the author of The Idea of … Continue reading

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Third World, First World

Darlene Clark Hine discusses the Black Women in the Middle West Project, an effort she spearheaded to preserve documentary evidence of the social and cultural contributions of black women to the American Midwest and which is housed at the Indiana … Continue reading

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