Agenti rurali e aziende agrarie nell'Italia centrale agli inizi del XX secolo (1900-1926)
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Keywords
- The aim is to highlight the changes that Italian agriculture saw in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries â
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- changes which also affected large farm managers (fattori or agenti rurali). When the royal schools established farming practices
- land managers underwent a radical change: practical training
- hitherto an exclusive component of professional education
- joined a school curriculum that was also based on the teaching of theory. The documentation in the archive collection at the Agricultural Institute of Todi (Umbria) reveals a number of issues
- related not only to the progressive modernization of agriculture but also to the educational and professional trajectories of those intermediate social groups
- such as land surveyors
- to which traditional historiography has devoted little attention