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Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris'……続きを見る

This book provides a broad overview of the main features of Spanish Milan and their transformations during the 16th and 17th centuries. At the same time, it addresses an important and long-lasting h……続きを見る

Developed by an international team of historians, sociologists, political scientists and economists, this collection is the most comprehensive reader of the history of Sino-Italian relations current……続きを見る

This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were charged with destroying anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi part……続きを見る

A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early mod……続きを見る

Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by the principle that someone else's rationality is not an empirical finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that ……続きを見る

An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national sp……続きを見る

This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens of the life of the iconic resistance fighter Mohamed Fekini, it tells the story of Libya under Ottoman ……続きを見る

This book details the Italian immigrant experience in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Mayoralty of George Moscone - which is to say the entire life cycle of the Italian community - and defin……続きを見る

This book explores the day-to-day 'lived experience' of fascism in Venice during the 1930s, charting the attempts of the fascist regime to infiltrate and reshape Venetians' everyday lives and their ……続きを見る

This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian arm……続きを見る

Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically……続きを見る

Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them……続きを見る

This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the ‘ndrangheta. It draws together diverse perspectives on the various ‘ndrangheta clans and……続きを見る

Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes examines the scope and extent to which the East influenced Rome and the Papacy following the Justinian Reconquest of Italy in the middle of the sixth century throu……続きを見る

Attraverso un’analisi socio-giuridica della penalità, il libro propone una riflessione su alcune questioni centrali: il rapporto tra strategie di acquisizione del consenso e allarme criminalità; l’i……続きを見る

A fronte di una storiografia orientata a fare del Sessantotto il movimento che più di ogni altro ha segnato sviluppi sociali, politici e culturali nella seconda metà del Novecento, l’autrice propone……続きを見る

The term 'medieval martial arts' conjures images of armour-clad knights wielding sword, lance and axe. While the image is correct, at the foundation of knightly combat was a sophisticated form of cl……続きを見る

Emme rossa! è la prima opera che sia stata mai dedicata alla storia di tutte le Unità della MVSN che combatterono in Russia, dai Raggruppamenti 3 Gennaio e 23 Marzo alla Legione di volontari croati ……続きを見る

This is the first in-depth, book-length study on fashion and Italian cinema from the silent film to the present. Italian cinema launched Italian fashion to the world. The book is the story of this l……続きを見る

You've seen the award winning television show now read the history behind Pope Alexander VI, Lucretia and Cesare Borgias. The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the ……続きを見る

Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, co……続きを見る

Italia - the land of pizza and pasta. But do you know that there's more this delightful place than all the delicious food? This picture book features the must-see places in Italy. It defines great a……続きを見る

Caporetto è la battaglia più famosa e più discussa della storia d'Italia, entrata nel linguaggio comune come sinonimo di disastro, immortalata da film e romanzi come Addio alle armi di Hemingway. A ……続きを見る

Arnold Esch zeichnet hier ein lebendiges Bild der entscheidenden 100 Jahre in der Geschichte des päpstlichen Hofes und der Stadt Rom: ein Jahrhundert, in dem sich in Rom alles in Bewegung setzt und ……続きを見る

Developing a knowledge of the Spanish-Italian connection between right-wing extremist groups is crucial to any detailed understanding of the history of fascism. Transnational Fascism in the Twentiet……続きを見る

Nicht wenige Opern Giacomo Puccinis (1858–1924) finden sich auf den Spielplänen der großen Opernhäuser unserer Tage – es sind Meisterwerke wie Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly oder ……続きを見る

Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Wester……続きを見る

Set in the middle of the Italian Riviera, Genoa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But Genoa was also one of medieval Europe’s major centers of trade and commerce. In G……続きを見る

Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War. It explores Italian socialist pacifism, the role of women during t……続きを見る