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Politics without Intellectuals
Italy in the Last Three Decades
Häftad, 2026
513 kr
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The book is the first historical reconstruction of Italian political events over the last thirty years, that is, the period from the Tangentopoli crisis of the early 1990s to the present day. In particular, the book examines, for the first time in a systematic and documented way, the controversial …
Women and the Great War
Femininity under Fire in Italy
Av A. Belzer
Inbunden, 2010
569 kr
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Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. The Great War transformed women into purveyors and recipients of a new feminine ideal that …
New Reflections on Primo Levi
Before and after Auschwitz
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and revealing byways (Levi and Calvino, or Levi and theater, for example).
Failure of Italian Nationhood
The Geopolitics of a Troubled Identity
Av M. Graziano
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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This book explains Italy s endless political instability and its historical, cultural and economic roots. It also illustrates why, even after the creation of the Italian state, Italy was never really unified. Piero Gobetti described fascism once as the "autobiography" of the Italian nation. This …
Italian Jews from Emancipation to the Racial Laws
Av C. Bettin
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect. In this book, Bettin examines the debate between integration and assimilation in the early twentieth century and Jewish culture to trace the …
Anti-Italianism
Essays on a Prejudice
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bold attempt by an esteemed group of scholars and writers to discuss the question openly by charting the …
Anti-Italianism
Essays on a Prejudice
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bold attempt by an esteemed group of scholars and writers to discuss the question openly by charting the …
Murder and Media in the New Rome
The Fadda Affair
Av T. Simpson
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the …
City and Nation in the Italian Unification
The National Festivals of Dante Alighieri
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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This study of the first national festival of modern Italy historically reconstructs the event, using a mass of un-catalogued and unpublished documents left by the organizers, which positions the Centenary as a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian national identity emerged.
Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya
Inbunden, 2010
569 kr
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This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens of the life of the iconic resistance fighter Mohamed Fekini, it tells the story of Libya under Ottoman and Italian rule from the point of view of the colonized.
Legacy of the Italian Resistance
Av Philip Cooke
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this contribution to scholarship by bridging the gap …
Italy’s Divided Memory
Av J. Foot
Häftad, 2011
1243 kr
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This book argues that contemporary Italian history has been marked by a tendency towards divided memory. Events have been interpreted in contrasting ways, and the facts themselves often contested. Moreover, with so little agreement over what happened, and why it happened, it has been extremely …
Italy on the Pacific
San Francisco’s Italian Americans
Av S. Fichera
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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This book details the Italian immigrant experience in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Mayoralty of George Moscone - which is to say the entire life cycle of the Italian community - and defines the concept of community in a way never seen before.
Memory and Massacre
Revisiting Sant’ Anna di Stazzema
Av P. Pezzino
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were charged with destroying anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi partisans. Paolo Pezzino not only reconstructs the events, but deals with the "forgetting" of the …
Carlo Levi’s Visual Poetics
The Painter as Writer
Av G. Lerner
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics explores the relation of word and image in Carlo Levi's literary works. Lerner investigates the ways in which the dialogue between verbal and iconic systems of representations becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion, and contributes to the definition …
In the Society of Fascists
Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini’s Italy
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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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 …
Piero Gobetti and the Politics of Liberal Revolution
Av J. Martin
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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Piero Gobetti was a radical liberal and critic of Italian politics in the years after World War I, he proposed 'revolutionary liberalism', which guided his opposition to Fascism and inspired key figures in the Italian Resistance. Accessible but critical, this volume is offers a balanced assessment …
Italian Colonialism
Häftad, 2008
1243 kr
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Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization. Essays on the political, economic, and military aspects of Italian colonialism are featured alongside works that …
Italy’s Divided Memory
Av J. Foot
Inbunden, 2010
1131 kr
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This book argues that contemporary Italian history has been marked by a tendency towards divided memory. Events have been interpreted in contrasting ways, and the facts themselves often contested. Moreover, with so little agreement over what happened, and why it happened, it has been extremely …
Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans
Av Luisa Del Giudice, Kenneth A. Loparo
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music.
Born to Crime
Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminology
Av Mary Gibson
Inbunden, 2002
1320 kr
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Despite the popular perception that genetic explanations of the causes of crime are new, biological determinism dates back to the birth of criminology, and the ideas of the man widely regarded as its founder, Cesare Lombroso. His 1876 work, ^ICriminal Man^R, drew on Darwin to propose that most …
Struggle for Modernity
Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism
Inbunden, 2003
1211 kr
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During the 20th century, Italy experienced some regrettable political developments. It was the first European nation after World War I in which a mass militia-party of revolutionary nationalism achieved power and abolished parliamentary democracy with the goal of building a totalitarian state. It …
Lost World of Italian American Radicalism
Politics, Labor, and Culture
Av Gerald Meyer, Philip Cannistraro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1101 kr
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Radicalism had a powerful but largely unacknowledged influence in the Italian-American community. This study brings together 16 selections that restore to Italian-American history the radical experience that has long remained suppressed, but that nevertheless helped shape both the Italian-American …
Making Liberalism Work
The Italian Experience, 1860-1914
Inbunden, 2003
1101 kr
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By most accounts, Italian-style liberalism failed. Explanations of its failure vary from economic backwardness or a political culture shaped by autocracy to claims that liberals ruined their chances by pursuing nothing but narrow middle class interests. This study examines the liberal record to …
Mazzini and Marx
Thoughts Upon Democracy in Europe
Inbunden, 2003
1070 kr
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Between August 1846 and April 1847, Guiseppe Mazzini, in London exile, published six articles in English in the People's Journal, the last of which was on Communism. With these articles, which became known in his native country in an 1852 Italian reworking, Mazzini powerfully inserted himself into …
Italian Colonialism
Inbunden, 2005
1243 kr
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Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization. Essays on the political, economic, and military aspects of Italian colonialism are featured alongside works that …
Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film
Av G. Cestaro
Häftad, 2004
635 kr
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Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. While fully cognizant of the theoretical risks inherent in trans-historicizing sexuality, the contributors …
Hunchback's Tailor
Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882-1922
E-bok, 2000
1169 kr
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Alongside Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) stands out as one of the major liberal reformers of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe. In the first complete English-language study of Giolitti, De Grand examines the political life of Italy's most notable …
Making Liberalism Work
The Italian Experience, 1860-1914
E-bok, 2003
1169 kr
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By most accounts, Italian-style liberalism failed. Explanations of its failure vary from economic backwardness or a political culture shaped by autocracy to claims that liberals ruined their chances by pursuing nothing but narrow middle class interests. This study examines the liberal record to …
Mazzini and Marx
Thoughts Upon Democracy in Europe
E-bok, 2003
1169 kr
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Between August 1846 and April 1847, Guiseppe Mazzini, in London exile, published six articles in English in the People's Journal , the last of which was on Communism. With these articles, which became known in his native country in an 1852 Italian reworking, Mazzini powerfully inserted himself into …
