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  • Italy and the 'Shock of the Global' during the 1970s

    Edited by Guido Formigoni ...
    Series series Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
    This open access book explores how Italy experienced the crucial period of transition that has come to be known as the ‘Shock of the Global’ during the 1970s. This decade marked a change between the prevailing socio-political and economic structures of the post-war world – the ‘golden age’ of national and Fordist capitalism – and a new horizon which would become much more integrated at a global ... Read more

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  • Modern Italy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anna Cento Bull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861, explicitly linked the quest for national unity to a ... Read more

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  • The Archipelago

    Italy Since 1945

    by John Foot ...
    'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday TimesItaly emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some people claimed had ceased to exist. And yet, as rural society disappeared almost overnight, by the 1960s, it could boast the fastest-growing economy in ... Read more

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  • Mussolini's Grandchildren

    Fascism in Contemporary Italy

    by David Broder ...
    'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and shocking' - John Foot, historianThe dominant force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia — a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging to prominence in recent years, it has waged a fierce culture war around national identity, polarised political debate around ... Read more

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  • Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

    by Colin Crouch ...
    The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy and also of social life, but what is missing is the social policy that needs to accompany this process, if there are not to be major problems. From this perspective marketization and social ... Read more

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  • Storming Heaven

    Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

    by Steve Wright, Riccardo Bellofiore, Massimiliano Tomba ...
    Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, of of which are still practiced today by workers ... Read more

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  • Global Rome

    Changing Faces of the Eternal City

    Edited by Clough Isabella Marinaro, Bjørn Thomassen ...
    Series series New Anthropologies of Europe
    Delving into topics from immigration to sustainability, this is "an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome" ( H-Italy).Is twenty-first-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, ... Read more

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  • Sport Italia

    The Italian Love Affair with Sport

    by Dr Simon Martin ...
    The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is devoured by almost half a million readers every day. Narrating the history of modern Italy through its national passion for sport, Sport Italia provides a completely ... Read more

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  • The Cultures of Italian Migration

    Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives

    Edited by Graziella Parati, Anthony Julian Tamburri ...
    The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective "Italian" to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like "home," "identity," "subjectivity," and "otherness" eschew stereotyping. This volume demonstrates that interpretations of old migrations are necessary ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Contesting Race and Citizenship

    Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean

    by Camilla Hawthorne ...
    Contesting Race and Citizenship is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there is extensive research on first-generation immigrants and refugees who traveled from Africa to Italy, there is little scholarship about the experiences of Black people who were born and raised in Italy. Camilla Hawthorne focuses on the ways Italians of African ... Read more

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  • Driving Modernity

    Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943

    by Massimo Moraglio ...
    Series Book 3 - Explorations in Mobility
    On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan–Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to Italian Fascism. Driving Modernity recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada, which—alongside ... Read more

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  • Women and the Reinvention of the Political

    Feminism in Italy, 1968-1983

    by Maud Anne Bracke ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    This is the first in-depth study of the feminist movement that swept Italy during the "long 1970s" (1968-1983), and one of the first to use a combination of oral history interviews and newly-released archive sources to analyze the origins, themes, practices and impacts of "second-wave" feminism. While detailing the local and national contexts in which the movement operated, it sees this movement ... Read more

    $66.99 USD