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This volume unites a wide range of papers given at the international conference «Italy and Europe’s Eastern Border. 1204-1669» in Rome in November 2010. Its content reflects the manifold research topics of a European scholarly community united in the joint endeavor to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-03
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The question of how ordinary people related to totalitarian regimes is still far from being answered.The tension between repression and consensus makes analysis difficult; where one ends and the other begins is never easy to determine. In the case of fascist Italy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-19
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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 responses to the intrusions of the fascist state.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-05-04
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Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her by the German...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
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2012-04-26
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The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2012-04-03
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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 partisans. Paolo Pezzino not only reconstructs the events, but deals with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-27
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The definitive study of Rome by one of the 20th century's finest ancient historians. A richly detailed portrait of Rome at the height of its glory.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-30
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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, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-16
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An examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-26
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In his brief public career, Piero Gobetti was one of the most outspoken and original voices of early Italian antifascism. Before his sudden death in 1926, he founded and edited three periodicals, including the fiercely antifascist La Rivoluzione Liberale and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy.The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2011-05-12
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This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this contribution to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-09
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Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die Rekonstruktion des Holocaust in Italien am Beispiel der Razzien im römischen Ghetto und im Ghetto von Venedig. Die Entstehungsgeschichte und die jeweilige Situation der jüdischen Gemeinden in Rom und Venedig zur Zeit der durchgeführten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-26
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The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-03-03
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In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-01-31
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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 and Italian rule from the point of view of the colonized.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-14
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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 spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-12
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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 armies in northern Italy in 1859, referred to in Italy as the "Second War...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-12
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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 modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-30
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