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  • Monte Carmelo

    An Italian-American Community in the Bronx

    de Anthony L. LaRuffa ...
    Series series The Library of Anthropology
    First Published in 1988. There are somewhat fewer than 12,000,000 Italian-Americans of both single ancestry and multiple ancestry living in the United States. They comprise 5.3 percent of the total population. This is a study of one particular segment of the larger metropolitan region. Located in the central part of the Bronx, Monte Carmelo’s beginning as an Italian-American community dates back ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

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  • Mafia Inc.

    The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan

    de Andre Cedilot, Andre Noel ...
    The runaway bestselling exposé about Canada's most infamous mafia family is finally available in English, updated to include shocking events and revelations that followed its newsmaking publication in Québec.Queens, New York, 1981. When Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato and two others are found dead in a vacant lot, police fail to solve their murders. For their killer and his Montréal family, their ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Italians

    de John Hooper ...
    **Washington Post bestsellerLos Angeles Times bestsellerA vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent**How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover?John Hooper’s entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Making Democracy Work

    Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

    de Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti ...
    Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Modern Italy

    A Very Short Introduction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • If Venice Dies

    de Salvatore Settis ...
    Traducido por André Naffis-Sahely ...
    "This powerful book of cultural criticism" by the renowned art historian "shines a harsh light on" a historic city's destruction in the name of profit ( The Washington Post).What is Venice worth? To whom do its irreplaceable treasures belong? This eloquent book by art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about urban stewardship and cultural patrimony at ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Crime, Punishment and Migration

    de Dario Melossi ...
    Series series Compact Criminology
    In the globalized world an extensive process of international migration has developed. The resulting conundrum of issues when examining crime and migration makes for a bitterly complex and intriguing set of debates.In this compelling account, Dario Melossi provides an authoritative take on the theory and research examining the connection of crime, migration and punishment. Through a socio ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

  • The Moral Neoliberal

    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    de Andrea Muehlebach ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state’s withdrawal ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Living the Revolution

    Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945

    de Jennifer Guglielmo ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period’s most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • An Offer We Can't Refuse

    The Mafia in the Mind of America

    de George De Stefano ...
    A provocative and entertaining look at the mafia, the media, and the (un)making of Italian Americans.As evidenced in countless films, novels, and television portrayals, the Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our real-life perception of Italian Americans. In An Offer We Can't Refuse, George De Stefano takes a close look ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Were You Always an Italian?

    Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America

    de Maria Laurino ...
    "One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."—San Francisco ChronicleMaria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD