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29 produkter
County Government
A Guide to Efficient and Accountable Government
Inbunden, 2000
978 kr
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Since the early 1900s, the manager form of municipal government has had enthusiastic support. Today, it is one of the most popular forms of municipal government and brought greater efficiency and accountability to municipal operations. However, as Coppa makes clear, this wave of reform has not …
Politics and the Papacy in the Modern World
Inbunden, 2008
711 kr
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The outbreak of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution at the turn of the nineteenth century transformed the world and ushered in the modern age, whose currents challenged the traditional political order and the prevailing religious establishment. The new secular framework presented a …
Politics and the Papacy in the Modern World
E-bok, 2008
780 kr
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The outbreak of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution at the turn of the nineteenth century transformed the world and ushered in the modern age, whose currents challenged the traditional political order and the prevailing religious establishment. The new secular framework presented a …
Dictionary of Modern Italian History
Inbunden, 1985
950 kr
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Modern Italian History
An Annotated Bibliography
Av Frank J. Coppa, William Roberts
Inbunden, 1990
805 kr
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Focusing on modern Italian history from the Age of the Enlightenment to the present, this reference work augments and serves as a companion and bibliographical supplement to Coppa's earlier volume, Dictionary of Modern Italian History (Greenwood Press, 1985), which surveyed the chief events, …
Encyclopedia of the Vatican and Papacy
Inbunden, 1999
922 kr
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This comprehensive source book focuses on the Vatican from the Renaissance through the 1990s. Developments are studied within the broad context of European and world history. Crucial pre-Renaissance events are included as are entries on all of the popes, and the twenty-one councils from Nicea (325) …
The Origins of the Italian Wars of Independence
Häftad, 1992
949 kr
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This title focuses on the "Risorgimento", the movement that led to the unification of Italy as a single kingdom. The Italian Wars of Independence were a sequence of three separate conflicts, taking place in 1848-49, 1859 and 1866. This volume examines the role of the major powers outside Italy in …
The Modern Papacy, 1798-1995
Häftad, 1998
921 kr
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This ambitious survey explores the response of the papacy to the challenges of the modern age. Running from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union, Frank Coppa examines the impact of major events like the Napoleonic conquests, Italian unification, two World Wars and the Cold War; he …
Controversial Concordats
The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler
Häftad, 1999
331 kr
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This is a survey of the relationship of the Roman Catholic Church with three dictatorial figures in the 19th and 20th centuries: Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler. The essays reveal that the papacy not only played a key role in determining church-state relations in particular countries, but also …
Papacy, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Häftad, 2008
387 kr
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Explores various issues surrounding the relationship between the papacy and the Jews in the modern age.
Life and Pontificate of Pope Pius XII
Between History and Controversy
Häftad, 2013
351 kr
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Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, is one of the most studied but least understood popes of the twentieth century while his pontificate remains the most turbulent and controversial. Although there is a general consensus that he faced serious problems during his tenure—fascist aggression, the Second …
Conflict and Diplomacy from the Great War to the Cold War
Av Donald E. Shepardson, Frank J. Coppa
Häftad, 2000
395 kr
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Conflict and Diplomacy from the Great War to the Cold War begins with the weakening of the old European order in World War I – the challenge of communism and fascism to the established international system. The author examines the origins of World War II in Asia and Europe and the advent of global …
Hungry Moscow
Scarcity and Urban Society in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
Av Mauricio Borrero, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 2003
747 kr
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Severe food shortages and unremitting hunger served as the background to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the civil war that followed. Hungry Moscow examines the impact of these food shortages on Moscow residents, focusing on the survival strategies they devised to overcome or minimize hunger. …
Modern Papacy, 1798-1995
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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This ambitious survey launches a major new five-volume series. It explores the response of the papacy, one of the world's longest-enduring institutions, to the multiplying challenges of the modern age. It runs from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union, ending with the pontificate …
Origins of the Italian Wars of Independence
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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This title focuses on the "Risorgimento", the movement that led to the unification of Italy as a single kingdom. The Italian Wars of Independence were a sequence of three separate conflicts, taking place in 1848-49, 1859 and 1866. This volume examines the role of the major powers outside Italy in …
Modern Papacy, 1798-1995
E-bok, 2016
1091 kr
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This ambitious survey launches a major new five-volume series. It explores the response of the papacy, one of the world''s longest-enduring institutions, to the multiplying challenges of the modern age. It runs from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union, ending with the pontificate …
Modern Papacy, 1798-1995
E-bok, 2016
1059 kr
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This ambitious survey launches a major new five-volume series. It explores the response of the papacy, one of the world''s longest-enduring institutions, to the multiplying challenges of the modern age. It runs from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union, ending with the pontificate …
Origins of the Italian Wars of Independence
E-bok, 2014
1091 kr
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This title focuses on the "Risorgimento", the movement that led to the unification of Italy as a single kingdom. The Italian Wars of Independence were a sequence of three separate conflicts, taking place in 1848-49, 1859 and 1866. This volume examines the role of the major powers outside Italy in …
Origins of the Italian Wars of Independence
E-bok, 2014
1091 kr
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This title focuses on the "Risorgimento", the movement that led to the unification of Italy as a single kingdom. The Italian Wars of Independence were a sequence of three separate conflicts, taking place in 1848-49, 1859 and 1866. This volume examines the role of the major powers outside Italy in …
Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII
Between Diplomacy and Morality
Häftad, 2011
604 kr
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The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII delves into the diplomacy of the most controversial pope of the twentieth century: Pius XII (pontificate, 1939-1958), «Advocate of Appeasement» to some and «Apostle of Peace» to others. Disagreement prevails on his quest for peace, recourse to impartiality …
From the «Terror of the World» to the «Sick Man of Europe»
European Images of Ottoman Empire and Society from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth
Av Asli Cirakman, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 2004
550 kr
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From the «Terror of the World» to the «Sick Man of Europe» sheds new light on the hotly debated issue of Orientalism by looking at the European images of the Ottoman Empire and society over three centuries. Through a careful examination of the European intellectual discourse, this book claims that …
Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli and Papal Politics in European Affairs
Häftad, 1990
401 kr
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Coppa provides the first full-length study of Giacomo Antonelli, friend and advisor to Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono) and his Secretary of State and chief minister from 1849 to 1876. Based on the documents of the secret Vatican Archives, and neglected family papers in the State Archive in Rome, the book …
Rosa Luxemburg and the Noble Dream
Av Donald E. Shepardson, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 1996
550 kr
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Rosa Luxemburg was a Jew, a Pole, and a woman who considered herself to be a prophet of socialism - and only a citizen of the proletariat. She dedicated her life to fulfilling the noble dream of socialism in the belief that only socialism could bring true freedom and the end of oppression. Rosa …
Spain and Portugal Today
Av Julia L. Ortiz-Griffin, William D. Griffin m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
395 kr
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Spain and Portugal, which share the Iberian Peninsula, also share many experiences, including replacing long-standing dictatorships with democracies during 1974-1975. This book examines their parallel struggles during the last quarter of the twentieth century to create a new political, social, and …
Islands of Law
A Legal History of the British Isles
Av Richard S. Tompson, Frank J. Coppa
Häftad, 2000
352 kr
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This comprehensive legal history of the British Isles describes the growth and interaction of legal systems in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present. Islands of Law undertakes to amend two gaps in historical writing by using legal history to illuminate the …
Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators
From Napoleon to the Present
Inbunden, 2006
897 kr
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Dictators are not new phenomena, but within the past two centuries they have dramatically proliferated not only in Europe, which witnessed the rise and fall of fascism and communism, but also in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where military as well as ideological dictators have …
Resistance, Imprisonment, and Forced Labor
A Slovene Student in World War II
Av Metod M. Milac, Frank J. Coppa
Häftad, 2003
367 kr
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Resistance, Imprisonment, and Forced Labor recalls the author’s struggle for survival as a prisoner and forced laborer following the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. He describes a dizzying and fateful journey during which he worked with both pro-Western and Partisan forces and was variously …
Belgium
A History-
Av Bernard A. Cook, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 2004
508 kr
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Although Belgium has only been an independent state since the 1830s, it has a long and complex past. This history is essential for understanding the complexities of issues that led to a devolution of the unitary Belgian state into a federation of linguistically based regions. In addition to the …
Politics, Patriotism and Language
Niccolò Machiavelli’s «Secular Patria» and the Creation of an Italian National Identity
Av William J. Landon, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 2005
818 kr
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Niccolò Machiavelli may not have been a cynical realist as he is often portrayed. On the contrary, this book argues that he precociously possessed the characteristics of an impassioned, sometimes misguided idealist, obsessed with the idea of Italian unification, but blinded to the practicalities of …
