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De Gruyter 2009; US$ 307.00With the volume Constitutional Documents of Italy and Malta 1787?1850 , the collected and annotated Italian constitutional documents of this epoch are now available for the first time. This publication contains over 150 Italian constitutional documents, beginning with the pre-revolutionary constitutional projects of Tuscany (Pietro Leopoldo Stati,... more...
Modena and Reggio ? Verona / Malta / Modena e Reggio ? Verona / Malta
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 377.00With the volume Constitutional Documents of Italy and Malta 1787?1850, the collected and annotated Italian constitutional documents of this epoch are now available for the first time. This publication contains135 Italian constitutional documents, beginning with the pre-revolutionary constitutional projects of Tuscany (Pietro Leopoldo Stati, 1787) and... more...
The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism, 66-2000 CE
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 136.00In this controversial book, the authors show how the Roman-Jewish wars were precipitated partly by Jewish demographic and religious expansion and by conflict with the Greeks and their culture. They argue that the trauma and humiliation of defeat, stimulated Jewish cultural growth, particularly in Hebrew, during and after the wars. This culture was... more...
Venice
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 21.00Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial -- a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice. In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon. His... more...
Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 58.00Examines industrial associations in Italy from 1906 to 1934 as they relate to the crisis in liberalism and the rise of fascism. more...
A Nation Collapses
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 30.00A Nation Collapses examines the Italian surrender of 1943 and its tragic consequences. more...
The Contest for Knowledge
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 22.50At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola,... more...
Gusto for Things
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 44.00We live in a material world—our homes are filled with things, from electronics to curios and hand-me-downs, that disclose as much about us and our aspirations as they do about current trends. But we are not the first: the early modern period was a time of expanding consumption, when objects began to play an important role in defining gender... more...
In the Society of Fascists
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00This work seeks to take a fresh look at the contentious question of the longevity and popularity of Mussolini's regime in Italy. In particular, it draws upon new research to challenge what has been the most influential paradigm over the last couple of decades, namely, the interpretation of Italian fascism as a consensual dictatorship. more...
Resisting the Tide
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 130.00Edited by members of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham, and bringing together academics in Britain, Ireland, the US and Italy, this volume takes an international perspective on Italian events. It investigates how resistance to the new conservative culture has been articulated, and how this has been expressed and explained... more...









