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Fascist Modernities
University of California Press 2000; US$ 27.95Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary... more...
Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC - AD 200:Conquest and Acculturation in Southern Italy
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 49.95The history of the Greek cities of Italy during the period of Roman conquest and under Roman rule form a fascinating case study of the processes of Roman expansion and assimilation and of Greek reactions to the presence of Rome. This book reassesses the role of Magna Graecia in Roman Italy and illuminates the mechanisms of Roman control and the process... more...
Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 38.00Stacey traces the formative impact of Senecas political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government. more...
The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 16.00The beginnings of the state in Europe is a central topic of contemporary historical research. The making of such early modern Italian regional states as Florence, the kingdom of Naples, Milan, and Venice exemplifies a decisive turn in the state tradition of Western Europe. The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 represents the best in American,... more...
Mussolini's Intellectuals
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 31.95Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative... more...
The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into the original sources leads the author through unexplored realms of medieval thought. By contrasting contemporary opinions with those of his central figure,... more...
Threats to Democracy
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 42.00This book represents the first systematic research by a social scientist on the radical right-wing movements in Italy since 1945. During the heyday of right-wing violence between 1969 and 1980, street aggressions, attacks, and murders were commonplace. These bloody episodes were assumed to be the work of fanatical bands of "political soldiers" and... more...
Italy's Divided Memory
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 32.00This book argues that contemporary Italian history has been marked by a tendency towards divided memory. Events have been interpreted in contrasting ways, and the facts themselves often contested. more...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Henry Holt and Co. 2011; US$ 20.99The astonishing untold story of a woman who tried to stop the rise of Fascism and change the course of history At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome?s Campidoglio Square. Less than a foot in front of her stood Benito Mussolini. As he raised his arm to give the Fascist salute, the woman raised hers and... more...
Visiting Modern War in Risorgimento Italy
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 100.00This 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 for Independence." In doing so it focuses on a series of individuals who visited... more...









