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After La Dolce Vita
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 22.95This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was a uniquely Italian brand of cultural capital that... more...
Barbar ? König ? Tyrann
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00Theodoric the Great is one of the most fascinating characters among the rulers from the time of the migrations of the Germanic peoples. Like no other Germanic king, this East Goth polarised the world of his time and made an impression on posterity. Opinions on him range from glorifying him as the ideal ruler to condemning him as a tyrant and heretical... more...
Berlin Ghetto
The History Press 2012; US$ 27.69Berlin Ghetto tells the story of a group of Jewish young people who had lives filled with intellectual exploration, intense friendships and romances, and dangerous and illegal political action during one of the most anti-Semitic and regressive regimes in history. The roots of anti-fascism in the Communist, Socialist and Jewish youth movements of pre-Nazi... more...
Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death. more...
Cavour and Garibaldi 1860
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 53.00An important study of the Risorgimento. devoted to seven crucial months in 1860. more...
Common Destiny
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 22.00This book offers a genuinely comparative analysis of the dictatorships that launched the Second World War: their origins, nature, dynamics, and common ruin. more...
The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 30.00Winner of the 2004 Josephine Roberts Edition Prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. A brilliant scholar and one of the finest writers of her day, Olympia Morata (1526-1555) was attacked by some as a "Calvinist Amazon" but praised by others as an inspiration to all learned women. This book publishes, for the first time, all her... more...
Dark Age Liguria
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013;Dark Age Liguria surveys the history of the Liguria region from c. 400 to c. 1050 AD, to provide a detailed case study of what happened here as Roman imperial rule ended. The book pulls together all the surviving evidence, written, archaeological, artistic and ecological, to propose that, in contrast with later periods, Ligurians looked north as much... more...
Demografiepolitik
Springer 2012; US$ 47.99Ein Buch unter dem Titel Demografiepolitik soll die aus den kollektiven Entwicklungen der Schrumpfung und der Alterung der Bevölkerung einerseits und aus der individuellen Perspektive des längeren Lebens andererseits resultierenden Befunde, Fragen, Probleme und Handlungsbedarfe politikfeldübergreifend aufnehmen und thematisieren.... more...
Der junge De Gasperi.
Duncker & Humblot 2012; US$ 79.24Hauptbeschreibung Alcide De Gasperi ist bekannt als der Politiker des italienischen Wiederaufbaus nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und als Förderer des vereinten Europa. Sein Leben davor - außerhalb des Kontextes des politischen Lebens Italiens - ist weniger bekannt. Und doch war diese Zeitspanne nicht kurz: 1881 im Trentino geboren, das damals zum Habsburgerreich... more...









