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  • Mussolini's Nature

    An Environmental History of Italian Fascism

    by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg ...
    Translated by James Sievert ...
    This exploration of the environmental practices of Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime invites readers to consider the ecological connections of all political projects.“We might think we see a mountain while it was a war; a forest can actually be an engine; a monument to workers might reflect the violence of a colonial empire.”—extracted from Mussolini’s NatureIn this first environmental history of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments

    From the Arctic to the Mountaintops

    Edited by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Stefano Morosini ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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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

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $19.59 USD

  • 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

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moderns Abroad

    Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism

    by Mia Fuller ...
    Series series Architext
    This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design theory, based on the assumptions made about the colonized, and also the application of modernist theory ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Materan Contradictions

    Architecture, Preservation and Politics

    by Anne Parmly Toxey ...
    Shaped by encrusted layers of development spanning millennia, the southern Italian city of Matera is the ultimate palimpsest. Known as the Sassi, the majority of the ancient city is composed of thousands of structures carved into a limestone cliff and clinging to its walls. The resultant menagerie of forms possesses a surprising visual uniformity and an ineffable allure. Conversely, in the 1950s ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Political Audiences

    A Reception History of Early Italian Television

    by Damiano Garofalo ...
    This book deals with the popular reception of early Italian television during the years of the socalled long “economic boom” (1954-1969). To do so, the author focuses on the Catholic and Communist audiences’ perception of the first TV programs. The investigation into these two main groups’ reception will be conducted through the analysis of all the TV references published in the readers’ columns ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Schooling in Modernity

    The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy

    by Paola Bonifazio ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic regimes in Italy and throughout Europe. In Schooling in Modernity, Paola Bonifazio ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Italy

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Diane Yvonne Ghirardo ...
    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    Throughout the twentieth century, architects in Italy have attempted to define the role of architecture under diverse political systems, from the monarchy of the first seventy years since Italian unification, to the 21 years of Fascist control, to the post-Second World War parliamentary republic. At the same time, Italy holds some of the most prized architecture and art in the world, from ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Through Partisan Eyes. My Friendships, Literary Education, and Political Encounters in Italy (1956-2013). With Sidelights on My Experiences in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union

    by Frank Rosengarten ...
    Frank Rosengarten’s Through Partisan Eyes is a remarkably powerful antidote to the pervasive view of Italy as a museum. His memoir brings poignantly into relief a vibrant scene of intellectuals (in the capacious definition of the term that encompasses scholars, artists, and many others who help shape a society’s self-representation and its broader world view) grappling with urgent social and ... Read more

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