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Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; US$ 29.89In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with terrifying consequences. more...
Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; Not AvailableIn MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with terrifying consequences. more...
Italian Fascism and the Female Body
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 63.95This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945. To qualify and quantify the impact of fascism on Italian Women's sport, the author first of all examines the pre-fascist period in terms of female physical culture. The text then describes how during the fascist era, women moved strictly within a framework designed... more...
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies
Fairleigh Dickinson 2012; US$ 74.99Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian studies and students interested in a... more...
The Genius of Venice
Rizzoli 2013; US$ 24.95An ideal volume for lovers of Venice and architecture aficionados, featuring an in-depth history of this singular city. Of Venice?s many majestic spaces, none is as evocative and significant as the Piazza San Marco. An authoritative account of the development of the entire piazza complex, through which unfolds the history of the Republic in general,... more...
Bel Canto Bully
Haus Publishing 2013; US$ 28.95The first major biography of the impresario Domenico Barbaja, accompanying a new Naxos album of Barbaja and his operas. more...
The Unification of Italy
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 26.95John Gooch's book is a concise introduction to the unification of the Italian states and the legacy of this union. Starting in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the book goes on to explain how, despite the causes of disunity, these Italian states shared racial, linguistic, and cultural factors, which led to their eventual political unity. more...
Italian Risorgimento
Routledge 1994; US$ 32.95Lucy Riall's engaging account is the first book of its kind on the upheavals of the years between 1815 and 1860, when a series of crises destabilised the states of Restoration Italy and led to the creation of a troubled nation state. more...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 15.95Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Berlin and taught art history and the Italian Renaissance in Berlin and Basel. His essay, as he called The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, was first published in 1860. Rich in its detailed account of the arts, fashions, manners, and thought... more...
Exporting Fascism
Bloomsbury Publishing 2003; US$ 109.95How did Italians living in Britain respond to Mussolini?s fascism? What links did ex-pat fascists forge with the British Right? To what extent did Italophilia exist in Britain during the Mussolini years? Exporting Fascism addresses these questio ns, which have long been ignored by historians. While there is much material available about Nazi sympathizers... more...









