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Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2007
636 kr
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This book relates the history of Italian railways with special regard to their relation with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were constructed, until nationalization in 1905. It shows that while the Italian state interfered continuously in railway matters, it was nevertheless …
The Italian Garden
Art, Design and Culture
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection of essays approaches Italian gardens of all periods, from the Middle Ages to modern times, and it ranges widely throughout the peninsula, from Genoa to Sicily, the Veneto to Liguria, and Ferrara …
The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy
Häftad, 2007
623 kr
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Political exiles were a prominent feature of political life in Renaissance Italy, often a source of intense concern to the states from which they were banished, and a ready instrument for governments wishing to intervene in the affairs of their rivals and enemies. This book, first published in …
Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy
Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War
Av Toby Osborne
Häftad, 2007
918 kr
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This book is a major study in English of the duchy of Savoy during the period of the Thirty Years War. Rather than examining Savoy purely in terms of its military or geo-strategic role, Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy comprises three interwoven strands: the dynastic ambitions of the …
The Politics of Ritual Kinship
Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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Confraternities were the most common form of organized religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. They were at once the lay face of the church, the spiritual heart of civic government, and the social kin who claimed the allegiance of peers and the obedience of subordinates. In this 1999 …
Naples in the Eighteenth Century
The Birth and Death of a Nation State
Häftad, 2007
754 kr
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In 1734 the kingdom of Naples became an independent monarchy, but in 1799 a Jacobin revolution transformed it briefly into a republic. In these few but intense decades of independence all the great problems of the age of the Enlightenment became apparent: attacks on feudalism and on the power of …
War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690-1720
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
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This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe by considering the role of the Duchy of Savoy and the rise of this hitherto weak state into one of the regular members of the anti-French coalitions of the eighteenth century. Through his …
Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy
Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women
Häftad, 2007
737 kr
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This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity produced a number of talented dramatists and works worthy of remembrance. Convent authors, actresses and audiences, especially in Tuscan …
Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Av Shearer West
Häftad, 2011
821 kr
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This was the first multi-disciplinary study of the dissemination of Italian culture in northern Europe during the long eighteenth century (1689-1815). The book covers a diverse range of artists, actors and musicians who left Italy during the eighteenth century to seek work beyond the Alps in …
Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy
The Structure of Diplomatic Practice, 1450-1800
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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This 2000 volume was the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states in the early modern period. The various contributions reveal the instruments and forms of foreign relations in the Italian peninsula. They also show a range of …
Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2011
955 kr
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The opening of the archive of the former Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome (the office of the 'Inquisition') yielded an extraordinary wealth of documentation, altering dramatically many long-standing views on the repressive activity of the Roman Church during the counter-Reformation. Drawing …
Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700
Av Gianvittorio Signorotto, Maria Antonietta Visceglia
Häftad, 2011
482 kr
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This 2002 book attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the early modern papacy by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court. The period covered extends from the Renaissance to the aftermath of the peace of Westphalia in 1648 - after which …
Crime, Disorder, and the Risorgimento
The Politics of Policing in Bologna
Inbunden, 1994
1593 kr
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This 1994 book provides a meticulous examination of the ideology, structure, and functions of papal police as they operated in the city and province of Bologna in the period before Italian unity. In doing so, it also offers an important new perspective on the Risorgimento in the region. The author …
Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy
Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular
Inbunden, 1995
1430 kr
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This book brings together for the first time detailed analyses of Tridentine liturgical reform, Counter-Reformation sanctity and the late Renaissance 'revolution' in historical method. It redraws traditional historical boundaries, and offers an original and challenging reappraisal of the relations …
Numbers and Nationhood
Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Inbunden, 1996
1693 kr
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Numbers and Nationhood, first published in 1996, explores the Italian inflection of a Europe-wide phenomenon in the nineteenth century: the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in society. Silvana Patriarca examines the ideologies which informed the copious statistical literature produced …
Society and the Professions in Italy, 1860-1914
Inbunden, 1995
1598 kr
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This is the first social and cultural study of the principal 'free' professions in Italy between unification and the First World War. It is a major contribution both to our understanding of the history of the bourgeoisie in Italy and to the developing role of professions in modern European society. …
Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna
Inbunden, 1995
2029 kr
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This 1995 book analyses the social, political and religious roles of the confraternities - the lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs - in Bologna in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. These confraternities shaped the …
Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy
The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930
Av Anthony L. Cardoza, Gigliola Fragnito
Häftad, 2002
955 kr
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This book provides a full account of the Italian nobility in the post-unification era. It challenges interpretations which have stressed the rapid fusion of old and new elites in Italy and the marginality of the nobility after 1861, and instead highlights the continuing economic strength, social …
Numbers and Nationhood
Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Av Silvana Patriarca, Gigliola Fragnito m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
687 kr
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Numbers and Nationhood, first published in 1996, explores the Italian inflection of a Europe-wide phenomenon in the nineteenth century: the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in society. Silvana Patriarca examines the ideologies which informed the copious statistical literature produced …
Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna
Av Nicholas Terpstra, Gigliola Fragnito m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
770 kr
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This 1995 book analyses the social, political and religious roles of the confraternities - the lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs - in Bologna in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. These confraternities shaped the …
Herculean Ferrara
Ercole d'Este (1471-1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital
Av Thomas Tuohy, Gigliola Fragnito m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
594 kr
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Ercole d'Este (1471-1505) is perhaps best known as the father of Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua, but his court in Ferrara was one of the most glittering in Renaissance Italy. He was an extremely prolific builder and laid out plans which doubled the size of the city. He was also the leader …
Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy
The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, 1453-1524
Av K. J. P. Lowe, Gigliola Fragnito m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
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921 kr
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This book examines the life of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453-1524) from a variety of perspectives and using a range of techniques. It analyses the relationship between Machiavelli, Piero and Francesco Soderini, and reinstates the crucial role played by Rome and contacts with Rome in late …
Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650
The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State
Av Joanne M. Ferraro, Gigliola Fragnito
Häftad, 2003
737 kr
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This book focuses on the behavior of the ruling families of Brescia, a rich and strategically vital city under Venetian rule, during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. The first part of the book conceptualizes the civic leadership of Brescia, with a profile of its origins and a brief …
Florentine Tuscany
Structures and Practices of Power
Av William J. Connell, Andrea Zorzi
Häftad, 2004
586 kr
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Florence has often been studied in the past for its distinctive urban culture and society, while insufficient attention has been paid to the important Tuscan territorial state that was created by Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Comprising a handful of formerly independent …
Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy
Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women
Inbunden, 2002
1641 kr
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This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity produced a number of talented dramatists and works worthy of remembrance. Convent authors, actresses and audiences, especially in Tuscan …
War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690-1720
Inbunden, 2000
1928 kr
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This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe by considering the role of the Duchy of Savoy and the rise of this hitherto weak state into one of the regular members of the anti-French coalitions of the eighteenth century. Through his …
Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Av Shearer West
Inbunden, 1999
1633 kr
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This was the first multi-disciplinary study of the dissemination of Italian culture in northern Europe during the long eighteenth century (1689-1815). The book covers a diverse range of artists, actors and musicians who left Italy during the eighteenth century to seek work beyond the Alps in …
Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy
The Structure of Diplomatic Practice, 1450-1800
Av Daniela Frigo, Daniela Frigo
Inbunden, 2000
1626 kr
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This 2000 volume was the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states in the early modern period. The various contributions reveal the instruments and forms of foreign relations in the Italian peninsula. They also show a range of …
Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century
Av Albert Schram, Gigliola Fragnito m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1727 kr
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This book relates the history of Italian railways with special regard to their relation with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were constructed, until nationalization in 1905. It shows that while the Italian state interfered continuously in railway matters, it was nevertheless …
English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Av Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis
Inbunden, 1998
1794 kr
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This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building its future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. In the seventeenth century the Mediterranean was the largest market for the colonial products which were …
