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The society of Norman Italy
BRILL 2002; US$ 222.00This work covers aspects of the society of southern Italy and Sicily from the 11th through to the 13th centuries. It covers the evolution of the social structure, to regional differences, the Church, and to the position of Greek and Arabic Christians and Muslims within the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. more...
Patrons and Adversaries
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 35.00Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its "vassals" clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted it through the strategies of adversarial literacy, and political ways of reading and writing, that challenged the noble hegemony. more...
The Hunchback's Tailor
Greenwood Publishing Group 2001; US$ 125.00This work examines the political life of Italy's most notable prime minister after Cavour. Alongside Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) stands out as one of the major liberal reformers of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe. more...
Antonio Gramsci
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 25.95For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture and evaluates responses to his work. Including British, European... more...
Italy
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 85.00Exploring more than 500 years of the country's history, "Italy" provides readers interested in modern Italy or European history with a greater understanding of Italy's past, from the Renaissance to the present. This guide presents the milestones in Italy's history in an interesting and readable way. more...
The Early Mediterranean Village
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 97.00Robb brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy. more...
Radical Thought in Italy
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 25.00Radical Thought in Italy provides an original view of the potential for a radical democratic politics today that speaks not only to the Italian situation but also to a broadly international context. more...
A Venetian Affair
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95In the waning days of Venice?s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city?s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions in... more...
Sprezzatura
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.95A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? ?Sprezzatura,? or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier . No one has demonstrated effortless... more...
The City of Falling Angels
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 15.00Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Midnight... more...









