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This book offers an original and comprehensive study of the memory of the Rogo di Primavalle, a fatal arson attack on the home of a far-right family on 16 April 1973. Perpetrated by members of the militant left group Potere Operaio, this was the first...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-13
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This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associations have used the name “Lampedusa” as a means of restoring a sense...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-07
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'Richly impressive, hard to surpass' William Boyd'A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings‘James Holland brings every inch of this battle vividly to life’ History Revealed‘This excellent book…The Savage Storm reinforces Holland’s reputation as...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2023-09-21
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Rudolf Graf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, Ferdinand Graf Piatti, Georg Graf Thurn-Valsassina stehen stellvertretend für Österreichs Adel. ...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-06-30
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Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-15
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The late eighteenth century and subsequent Napoleonic Era witnessed a turning point in the establishment of agricultural science as a well-defined discipline in northern Italy. In this book, Martino Lorenzo Fagnani traces these developments by reviewing the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-29
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Gaetano Salvemini (1873 – 1957), one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of his generation, was an historian, a professor, and a tireless anti-fascist who mentored a new generation of young intellectuals and political activists, such as Piero...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-24
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Pellegrino Artusi, the great gastronome and amateur detective, is back. It is 1900 and Pellegrino's famed cookbook is in its fifth edition. Flushed from his fortune and success, our hero joins a weekend party at the Tuscan castle of the wealthy agricultural...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2023-04-13
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'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerina, the dancing earth. The dance they spoke of was unrelenting.'Foreign...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-03-30
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This book argues for the importance of adopting a postcolonial perspective in analysing contemporary Italian culture and literature. Originally published in Italian in 2018 as Riscrivere la nazione: La letteratura italiana postcoloniale, this new English translation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-17
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Exploring two large economies which were heavily affected by deindustrialisation in the late twentieth century, this book provides insights into the social movements that brought about and also challenged industrial reduction in Europe. Both the Ruhr region in Germany...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-14
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This book presents the history of Chinese migrations to Europe within a “transcalar glocal” perspective. That is, it moves between international, national, and local levels of analysis to describe the different constraints Chinese migrants deal with in their lives....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-24
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This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium. During this period the Italian wine sector experienced a profound modernization, renovating itself and adapting its products to international trends,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-31
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Gaetano Salvemini (1873 – 1957), one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of his generation, was an historian, a professor, and a tireless anti-fascist who mentored a new generation of young intellectuals and political activists, such as Piero...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-26
Collection :
Italian and Italian American Studies
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This book provides a sociological understanding of transformations within Eastern Orthodoxy and the settlement of Orthodox diasporas in Western Europe. Building a fresh framework on religion and migration through the lenses of religious glocalization, it explores the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-02
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'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' The Telegraph'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and compelling, packed...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2022-06-30
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This book is the first epoch-spanning study on Jewish participation in the Italian women’s movement, focussing in a transnational perspective on the experience of Italian-Jewish protagonists in Liberal Italy, during the First World War and the Fascist dictatorship until...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-30
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This book explores the evolution of the role of the heirs to the throne of Italy between 1860 and 1900. It focuses on the future kings Umberto I (1844-1900) and Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947), and their respective spouses, Margherita of Savoia (1851-1926) and Elena...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Combining intellectual history, geography and political science, this book addresses the relations between geography and the federalist tendencies of key individuals during the nineteenth-century Italian Risorgimento. The book investigates the development of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-25
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This book addresses the interplay between collaboration and resistance during the Revolutionary/Napoleonic era in the Duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, renamed States of Parma in 1802 and Department of Taro in 1808. Considered no more than a docile backwater in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-28
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