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    A Concise History from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity

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  • The Blackshirts’ Dictatorship

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    by Matteo Millan ...
    Translated by Sergio Knipe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation that would last for twenty years. That power was obtained was largely due to the widespread violence perpetrated by blackshirts throughout Italy (squadristi). Violence however did not end. Old and new blackshirts played a major role in making Italy a fascist country. Contrary to the claims of many scholars that have ... Read more

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  • The Seigneurial Transformation

    Power Structures and Political Communication in the Countryside of Central and Northern Italy, 1080-1130

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    Series series Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
    In The Seigneurial Transformation, Alessio Fiore discusses the transformation of the fabric of power in the kingdom of Italy in the period between the late eleventh century and the early twelfth century. The study analyses the major socio-political change of this period, the crisis of royal and public structures, and the development of seigneurial powers, using as a starting point the structures ... Read more

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