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Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter ……続きを見る

This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period, and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were of……続きを見る

La fede nelle capacità di riscatto degli italiani e di tutti popoli del sud del mondo, la sfida alle grandi potenze economiche e la tenacia di un imprenditore appassionato, in un'antologia di testi ……続きを見る

Marion Cave Rosselli is remembered as the 'perfect companion' of the Italian Antifascist leader Carlo Rosselli, assassinated in Paris in June 1937. But little is known about the young English studen……続きを見る

Un affresco di storia lungo secoli transita per il Passo della Morte. Ventimiglia da questa parte, Mentone oltre la frontiera. Attraverso boschi e montagne si snoda il sentiero che conduce fino al p……続きを見る

La Difesa della razza" è la lucida e amara analisi di una delirante rivista che, tra il 1938 e il 1943, s'impose l'obiettivo di trasformare gli italiani in un popolo di razzisti, grazie alla collabo……続きを見る

La storia di due donne dei Gonzaga: Cecilia e Giulia Gonzaga. I Gonzaga. Bibliografia e alcuni film sulla casata. 続きを見る

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has……続きを見る

Although remembered and even lauded in the public mind as the British prime minister during the Second World War who played a major role in Allied victory over the Axis Powers and Japan, Winston Chu……続きを見る

This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni’s Wise and Crazy World, Patrizi’s The H……続きを見る

Entangled in the hybrid fields of ecomedia studies and material ecocriticism, Elena Past examines five Italian films shot on location and ponders the complex relationships that the production crews ……続きを見る

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying t……続きを見る

Pericoloso brigante o generoso fuorilegge? Giuseppe Nicola Summa, detto Ninco Nanco, con le sue luci e le sue ombre fu il ritratto di un’epoca e di una terra martoriata. Questo volume ne ripercorre ……続きを見る

La sconfitta subita in Egitto e Cirenaica dall’esercito del Maresciallo Rodolfo Graziani ad opera della Western Desert Force, culminata nell’annientamento della 10a Armata a Beda Fomm nel febbraio d……続きを見る

A cosa deve le sue fortune una città come Firenze, la più piccola tra le grandi città del mondo? Agli artisti? Ai poeti? Alla bistecca? Alla "C" aspirata? Alla simpatia dei suoi cittadini? Forse que……続きを見る

Che il Risorgimento possa essere «una faccenda che appassiona e avvince, e persino diverte» è una scommessa che soltanto un anarchico come Luciano Bianciardi poteva tentare. Nella memoria collettiva……続きを見る

Richly painted maiolica ceramics from Tuscany. Supple Florentine leather. The cameos of Naples and the Amalfi Coast. Parmigiano-Reggiano, the king of cheeses. Jaw-dropping glass from the island of M……続きを見る

Dal 1861 ad oggi, lo stato italiano ha imbastito una narrativa distorta per alimentare il mito di una felice unità d’Italia. I libri di storia ufficiali sono tutt’oggi pregni di una retorica risorgi……続きを見る

After escaping from forced residency on an island off the coast of Italy, Malatesta made his way to London and eventually Paterson, New Jersey, in 1899. Here, among thousands of weavers in the burge……続きを見る

The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance, awareness, and knowledg……続きを見る

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the 'Congress System' became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe. So central was the Austrian Chancellor Metternich to the political-legal Congres……続きを見る

First Published in 2001. The Reluctant Imperialists, British Foreign Policy 1878-1902 Volume II focuses on the documents whose purpose is less to define what policy was than to give students some id……続きを見る

Il volume raccoglie una cospicua selezione di discorsi, interviste e articoli di una delle figure storiche più controverse del Ventesimo secolo, comparsi su riviste e giornali dal 1914 al 1945. Segu……続きを見る

In this rich history of Italy’s Tiber River, Bruce Ware Allen charts the main currents, mythic headwaters, and hidden tributaries of one of the world’s most renowned waterways. He considers life alo……続きを見る

City of the Soul critically examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome’s image, visual and literary, in the century between 1770 and 1870ーfrom the era of the Grand Tour to the on……続きを見る

Os textos reunidos neste livro são tirados das páginas dos "Cadernos do cárcere", escritos por Antonio Gramsci entre 1929 e 1935. Eles constituem um dos nós mais significativos de seu pensamento e r……続きを見る

Nenhuma cidade da Terra preservou tão bem seu passado quanto Roma. Visitantes podem atravessar pontes antes cruzadas por Cícero e Júlio César, explorar templos ocupados pelos imperadores romanos e e……続きを見る

Published in 2001, Mirage Of Power Pt1 V3 is a valuable contribution to the field of History. 続きを見る

Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form of artistic creation, p……続きを見る

National indifference is one of the most innovative notions historians have brought to the study of nationalism in recent years. The concept questions the mass character of nationalism in East Centr……続きを見る