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  • Italy and the Mediterranean

    Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era

    by N. Bouchard, V. Ferme ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Mediterranean has always loomed large in the history and culture of Italy, and since the 1980s this relationship has been represented in ever more varied forms as both national and regional identities have evolved within a globalized context. This interdisciplinary volume puts Italian artists (writers, musicians, and filmmakers) and intellectuals (philosophers, sociologists, and political ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Birth of the West

    Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

    by Paul Collins ...
    The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Pursuit of Italy

    A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples

    by David Gilmour ...
    "In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . an enduring tribute." —Ian Thomas, Evening StandardOne of The Economist 's Books of the YearDid Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The quest... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Story of My People

    Essays and Social Criticism on Italy's Economy

    by Edoardo Nesi ...
    Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was a thriving industrial center that prided itself on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film

    by Barbara Alfano ...
    The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Mafia Files

    Case Studies of the World's Most Evil Mobsters

    by Al Cimino ...
    The Mafia Files presents the rap sheets of key figures in the Italian-American underworld, featuring Lupo the Wolf, the Teflon Don, Joey 'the Clown' Lombardo, Tony 'Joe Batters' Accardo and many more.These case studies chart the mobsters' careers, showing how Mafia tentacles have delved into a host of new ventures over the past 100 years. Including portraits of victims and crime-busters, this full ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Pushing Past the Night

    Coming to Terms with Italy's Terrorist Past

    by Mario Calabresi ...
    Translated by Michael Moore ...
    December 15, 1969, was the most important day of Mario Calabresi's life, although he would not be born for another year. On that date, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli fell to his death from a window at the Milan police headquarters, where he was being questioned about his role in the Piazza Fontana massacre, the most infamous episode of domestic terrorism in Italy.Police Inspector Luigi Calabresi, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Unfinished Business

    Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

    by Dana Renga ...
    Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade. It provides insightful analyses of popular films that sensationalize violence, scapegoat women, or repress the homosexuality of male protagonists. Dana Renga examines these works through the lens of gender and trauma theory to show how the films engage with the process of mourning and healing mafia-related ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Road to Civitella 1944

    The Captain, the Chaplain and the Massacre

    by Dee La Vardera ...
    The massacre and destruction of Civitella on 29 June, 1944 by the 1st Fallschirm Panzer Division 'Herman Goring' as reprisal for the shooting of three German soldiers in the village Dopolavoro-after work social club, left women widows and children fatherless. The book describes the journey of Captain John Percival Morgan and Father Clement O'Shea with the Eighth Army in Italy, to that hilltop ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

  • Reinterpreting Genoese Civil Conflicts: The Chronicle of Ottobonus Scriba

    by Agostino Inguscio ...
    A compelling new study of conflicts in Genoa surrounding the 12th century. This book takes on the established orthodoxy about the extent, nature and effects of family conflicts and other civil disputes in medieval Genoa. As Emanuele Ferragina writes in the Foreword, Inguscio "brings history and its complexity back in, and he does so in a clear and empirically informed way. For this reason, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861–1950

    by Sabina Donati ...
    This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until just after World War II. It does so by exploring the civic history of Italians in the peninsula, and of Italy's colonial and overseas native populations. Using little-known documentation, Sabina Donati delves into the policies, debates, and formal notions ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Thinking Italian Animals

    Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film

    Edited by D. Amberson, E. Past ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD