Italy category: 3604 books
Italian Modernities
Competing Narratives of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Chistian Democracy - came to formulate...
by Gabriele Esposito
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The great powers of medieval Europe fought continuously in the Italian peninsula between the 12th and 14th centuries as they sought to expand their territory. Invading armies from Germany – the Holy Roman Empire – saw the creation of the defensive Lombard League of northern Italian city-states....
The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property
Saving the World's Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Renowned for their rigorous investigative approach, the dedicated officers of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property (Carabinieri TPC) have recovered thousands of objects and built legal cases resulting in high profile repatriations of cultural property. Their actions have...
The Story-Takers
Public Pedagogy, Transitional Justice, and Italy's Non-Violent Protest against the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The Story-Takers charts new territory in public pedagogy through an exploration of the multiple forms of communal protests against the mafia in Sicily. Writing at the rich juncture of cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic theories, Paula M. Salvio draws on visual and textual representations including...
by Roisin Cossar
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers’ desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled those of the laity, and priests’ lives included apprenticeships in youth, fatherhood in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.
by Katherine Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Venice is known as the "Queen of the Adriatic," and this northeastern Italian city is an internationally acclaimed destination steeped in culture and history. Venice has magnificent basilicas, quaint palazzos, and serene promenades which hearken back to Renaissance times. Its gondolas and...
by Enw European New Multimedia Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
10Pills: a practical guide, user friendly that allows to discover the characteristic places not to lose of Mantua. Do you have little time, do you want to optimize your visits, do you want to discover the typical foods and the characteristic restaurants? 10Pills provide for you.
Religion as Resistance
Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national identity through imperial expansion. After decades of acrimony between an intransigent Church and the Italian state, enthusiasm for the imperial adventure helped incorporate...
Power & Purity
Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1998
Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body,...
Religion and Politics in the Risorgimento
Britain and the New Italy, 1861-1875
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international, diplomatic, and domestic levels.
by Enw European New Multimedia Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
10Pills: a practical guide, user friendly that allows to discover the characteristic places not to lose of Milan. Do you have little time, do you want to optimize your visits, do you want to discover the typical foods and the characteristic restaurants? 10Pills provide for you.
Discovery of the World
A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Luciana Castellina is one of Italy’s most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper il manifesto. In this coming-of agememoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy—where she used to play tennis with Mussolini’s...
Tolerance, regulation and rescue
Dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300–1800
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Looking at Catholic charity and social policy in past times, this book focuses on 'unrespectable' women and children in Italy, and their treatment at the hands of charities and the law. It looks at prostitutes and women engaged in sexual relationships outside formal marriage, and foundlings, many...
by Jonathan Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Located in the Mediterranean Sea, the island of Sardinia is filled with pleasant contrasts. The glitzy Costa Smeralda is dotted with boutique hotels and posh beaches and is full of five-star glamour. Meanwhile Sardinia has a charming interior with tiny untouched villages. Stretches of enclosed swimming...