Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Local Practices and State Authority: Reflections on the Criminal Policy of the Genoese Oligarchy; Chapter 3: A Local Universe and Its Horizons; 1 The Political System of the Communities and the Quartiere of Oltremonte; 2 The Village of Monleone and the Fopiano Kin Group; 3 Customs and Political Manipulation; Chapter 4: The Land and Residential Patterns; 1 Chestnut Trees: The 'Olive Trees' of the Backcountry; 2 Subsistence Economies between Ownership and Possession

3 Distribution of Land Ownership and Kin Groups4 Villages and Kin Groups: Settlement Patterns; Chapter 5: In the Fontanabuona: Forms of Social Exchange and Kin Group Relations; 1 Elements for the Biography of a Leader; 2 Dowries and Matrimonial Exchanges; Chapter 6: Circuits of Exchange; 1 Commercial Transit and International Relations; 2 Olive Oil Production and Commerce as One Form of Integration; 3 Brokers and Contraband; 4 Grain Trade: Marketplaces, Brokers, Millers, Bakers, and Retailers; 5 Kin Groups, Friendship, and Commercial Exchange; Chapter 7: The Construction of Social Reality

Chapter 8: Events and Political Narratives1 Local Conflicts and High Politics; 2 The Borgo and the Villages: Resources and Social Fields; 3 The Civil War and the "Diabolical Ancient Factions"; 4 Between Center and Periphery: Government by Factions and Pacification; Chapter 9: Bandits; 1 "Companies" and Factions; 2 Arghenta Consegliero; 3 Stefano Repetto: An Economy of Banditry?; 4 Silk Velvet Weavers and the Bandits: The De Martino of Lorsica; 5 Alessandro Arata: Bandits and Diggers; Chapter 10: Politics within Kin Groups (1565-1665); 1 Community, Parish, and Kin Groups; 2 History of a Feud

3 The Principali and the Feud: Kin Group Configurations, Both Vertical and HorizontalAppendix: Property Distribution within Certain Fontanabuona Kin Groups According to the 1641 Caratata (from Chap. 4); Index