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  • Twentieth Century Italy

    A Social History

    by Jonathan Dunnage ...
    Series series Social History of Europe
    Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education, their working conditions and their leisure activities. The final part of the book examines ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    46 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 1 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical ... Read more

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  • As If God Existed

    Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy. But in this book, Maurizio Viroli, a leading historian of republican political thought, challenges this conventional wisdom. He argues that political emancipation and the defense of political liberty have always required the self-sacrifice of people ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Siena, the history of a medieval commune

    by Ferdinand Schevill ...
    The persistent interest manifested by the public in the story of the Italian communes will, I hope, make an apology for the present book on Siena unnecessary.“Though availing myself, to the best of my ability, of the work of my many predecessors in this field, I have constantly striven to arrive at an independent view of every circumstance of Sienese history by a personal study of the sources, ... Read more

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  • Believe, Obey, Fight

    Political Socialization of Youth in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943

    by Tracy H. Koon ...
    The Fascist regime under Mussolini regarded its youth as its best hope for the future. Young people were courted more assiduously than any other group in the society and their political socialization became a central concern of the government. Believe, Obey, Fight discusses the various tools used by the Fascist regime from 1922 to 1943 to shape the political values and environment of the young. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Rome

    A History in Seven Sackings

    by Matthew Kneale ...
    “This magnificent love letter to Rome” (Stephen Greenblatt) tells the story of the Eternal City through pivotal moments that defined its history—from the early Roman Republic through the Renaissance and the Reformation to the German occupation in World War Two—“an erudite history that reads like a page-turner” (Maria Semple).Rome, the Eternal City. It is a hugely popular tourist destination with a ... Read more

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  • Unequal Friendship

    The Patron-Client Relationship in Historical Perspective

    by Jarosław Fazan, Antoni Mączak ...
    Series Book 20 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, as well as twentieth-century America. It also analyzes clientelism in U.S. policy toward the Vietnam War and in Richard J. Daley’s mayoral rule over Chicago. In his ... Read more

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  • Carlo Tresca

    Portrait of a Rebel

    by Nunzio Pernicone ...
    Nunzio Pernicone’s biography uses Carlo Tresca’s (1879-1943) storied life?as newspaper editor, labor agitator, anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and opponent of fascism?as a springboard to investigate Italian immigrant and radical communities in the United States. From his work on behalf of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee, and his ... Read more

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  • Italy’s Eighteenth Century

    Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour

    Edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Catherine M. Sama ...
    In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Hollow Men

    Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy

    by Susan Gaylard ...
    This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The End of Anarchism?

    by Luigi Galleani ...
    Here, translated for the first time into English, is a new edition of 'The End of Anarchism?' by Luigi Galleani, an anarchist militant in both Italy and North America, who is best known for his activities as the editor of the US-based Italian language journal, 'Cronaca Sovversiva', published between 1903-1918. From this paper sprang one of the largest and most enduring elements of the anarchist ... Read more

    $3.75 USD

  • Hermenegildo and the Jesuits

    Staging Sainthood in the Early Modern Period

    by Stefano Muneroni ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This bookexplores the cultural conditions that led to the emergence and proliferation of Saint Hermenegildo as a stage character in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It considers how this saint became a theatrical trope enabling the Society of Jesus to address religious and secular concerns of the post-Tridentine Church, and to discuss political issues such as the supremacy of the pope over ... Read more

    $80.09 USD