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Watching Vesuvius
A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco reveals in this ambitious and wide-ranging study. Humanists...
Garibaldi
The Man and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1935, this is a biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi (4 July 1807 - 2 June 1882), the Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest generals of modern times and one of Italy’s “fathers of...
STEFANO DELLE CHIAIE
Portrait of a Black Terrorist
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The career of Stefano Delle Chiaie spans two continents and at least two decades. The history of Delle Chiaie is the history of nazism in our world today. Through it we see neo-fascist terrorist organisations in their true role: agents of an inner, oligarchic power sphere which sets itself above all...
Sleepwalking into a New World
The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally...
Campaldino 1289
The battle that made Dante
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Campaldino is one of the important battles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines - the major political factions in the city states of central and northern Italy. It heralded the rise of Florence to a dominant position over the area of Tuscany and was one of the last occassions when the Italian city...
by F.J. Snell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Giuseppe (Joseph) Garibaldi was born at Nice on July 4, 1807. Nice is now, and has been since 1860, a French town, but between these dates it was included in the kingdom of Piedmont, and its Italian name is Nizza. The Garibaldis were pure Italians, having come thirty years before from Chiavari, on...
Refugees, Human Rights and Realpolitik
The Clandestine Immigration of Jewish Refugees from Italy to Palestine, 1945-1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period, and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were often in direct competition with strategic interests and national sovereignty.
The case study is...
The Moral Neoliberal
Welfare and Citizenship in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of...
Italian Women at War
Sisters in Arms from the Unification to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this topic. Part one of the book focuses on...
by Marina Cattaruzza
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This is the first scholarly work in Modern European History which elucidates consistently how border issues affect the history of nations and states in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book rethinks the Italian history of the last 150 years from the perspective of its eastern periphery and of the profound impact that events on the border had on the core of the country.
Mafia and Antimafia
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality. It is often seen as a polymorphic organization which encompasses crime, the accumulation of corruptly acquired wealth and power, the cultural code of omertà and consensus. Umberto Santino, one of Italy's...
In the Society of Fascists
Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini’s Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This work seeks to take a fresh look at the contentious question of the longevity and popularity of Mussolini's regime in Italy. In particular, it draws upon new research to challenge what has been the most influential paradigm over the last couple of decades, namely, the interpretation of Italian fascism as a consensual dictatorship.
The Seizure of Power
Fascism in Italy, 1919-1929
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
This volume is a study of Fascism in its country of origin, Italy. It describes the impact of a new type of political movement on Italian government and society. The Fascist seizure of power did not begin or end with Mussolini's famous March on Rome in 1922; it was achieved rather by gradual subversion...
India in the Italian Renaissance
Visions of a Contemporary Pagan World 1300-1600
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
India in the Italian Renaissance provides a systematic, chronological survey of early Italian representations of India and Indians from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th century, and their resonance within the cultural context of Renaissance Italy. The study focuses in particular on...