This book addresses the community, the family, spatial and social mobility and the village elites. It explores dynamism in rural societies with a focus on mountain and upland areas by combining the micro-historical and the long-term approach. It shows how bringing together the micro reality and the long time-span, allows a clearer picture of social and economic dynamics to emerge. The Authors concentrate on their actors’ agency, networking, alliance building, ability in seizing opportunities and in responding to challenges represented by social, economic and political changes in the long run. In unveiling the dynamicity of rural society, they keep an eye on traits of continuity, revealing dialectics between continuity and change.

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