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  • The Origins of the Libyan Nation

    Colonial Legacy, Exile and the Emergence of a New Nation-State

    by Anna Baldinetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History
    Libya is a typical example of a colonial or external creation. This book addresses the emergence and construction of nation and nationalism, particularly among Libyan exiles in the Mediterranean region. It charts the rise of nationalism from the colonial era and shows how it developed through an external Libyan diaspora and the influence of Arab nationalism.From 1911, following the Italian ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • See Naples and Die

    by Penelope Green ...
    The second book in a much loved Italian travel memoir trilogy which also includes the delightful When in Rome and Girl by Sea.After three years living and working in Italy, Australian journalist Penelope Green needs a reason to stick around - true love or gainful employment.When a job comes up in Naples - crime capital of Italy, home of pizza and the Camorra, and crouched at the foot of a volcano ... Read more

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  • Pictures From Italy

    by Charles Dickens ...
    The Pictures from Italy are excellent in themselves and excellent as a foil to the American Notes. Here we have none of that air of giving a decision like a judge or sending in a report like an inspector; here we have only glimpses, light and even fantastic glimpses, of a world that is really alien to Dickens. It is so alien that he can almost entirely enjoy it. For no man can entirely enjoy that ... Read more

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  • Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

    by Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    Series Book 169 - Warrior
    Despite the attention paid to the Afrikakorps over the years, it was the numerically far superior forces of the Italian Army that held the line and formed the bulk of the fighting power available to the Axis powers during the War in the Desert from 1941 through to 1943. Their performance has been unfairly criticised over the years – the best units of the Italian Army were equal to those of the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Garments of Court and Palace

    Machiavelli and the World That He Made

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    A "serious and thoughtful" interpretation of Machiavelli's life and thought—and its relevance today—from the acclaimed author of Terror and Consent ( The Times, London).Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt turns his expert attention to the life and work of Niccolo Machiavelli, the sixteenth century political philosopher whose classic text The Prince remains one of the most important and ... Read more

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  • Battle Story: El Alamein 1942

    by Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. El Alamein saw tow of the greatest generals of the war pitted against each other: Rommel and Montgomery. Through key profiles and a chapter devoted to 'The Armies' Battle Story: El Alamein explores what made these men inspired leaders and what led to their respective defeat and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • North Africa, Revised Edition

    A History from Antiquity to the Present

    by Phillip C. Naylor ...
    North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically underestimated. In a book that may lead scholars to reimagine the concept of Western civilization, incorporating the role North African peoples played in shaping "the West," Phillip Naylor describes ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Trans-Saharan Africa in World History

    by Ralph A. Austen ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism (Text Only Edition)

    by Donald Sassoon ...
    In this fascinating look at the unique conjuncture of factors surrounding Il Duce’s seizure of power, eminent historian Donald Sassoon traces the political circumstances that sent Italy on a collision course with the most destructive war of the century.On the morning of 30 October 1922, Mussolini arrived in Rome to accept the premiership of a constitutional, conservative government. Within five ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    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. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Religion as Resistance

    Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya

    by Eileen Ryan ...
    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 Catholic interests in a new era of mass politics. Others among Italian imperialists-military ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • German Airborne Divisions

    Mediterranean Theatre 1942–45

    by Bruce Quarrie ...
    Series Book 15 - Battle Orders
    Following the battle for Crete in May 1941, Hitler refused to undertake any further large-scale airborne operations due to the high casualty rate.The Fallschirmjäger subsequently took up a new role as elite 'line' infantry, and they served in the Mediterranean from 1942 to 1945, taking part in the conflict in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Their performance in such hard-fought battles as El ... Read more

    $20.59 USD