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People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489554
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 63.00A new view of the Goths of Italy, challenging racist, nationalist assumptions about barbarian groups. more...
Renaissance Civic Humanism
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 32.00The evolution of republican concepts compared to medieval and early modern traditions of political thought. more...
The Failure of Italian Nationhood
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This book provides a political, economic, sociological, and cultural history of Italy that looks at its difficulties with the task of nation-building. more...
The Borgias
Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 13.11The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously... more...
Italian Journeys
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 18.00When Abraham Lincoln appointed William Dean Howells Consul to Venice, the young writer embarked on a journey that would leave an indelible impression on his life and work. Howells lived in Italy for four years, from 1861, during the pivotal and tumultuous period of Italian reunification. Italian Journeys, Howell's engrossing memoir of this time,... more...
Umland der Stadt Rom - Von der tyrrhenischen Küste bis zu den Albaner Bergen
Philipp von Zabern Verlag 2010; US$ 19.40Hauptbeschreibung Roms Monumente werden seit Jahrhunderten gründlich erforscht und sind den zahlreichen Besuchern der Ewigen Stadt hinlänglich bekannt. Doch die vielen Städte und Denkmäler außerhalb Roms sind nur wenigen ein Begriff. Erstmalig stellt dieser Band basierend auf den neuesten historischen und archäologischen Erkenntnissen die bedeutendsten... 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...
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...
Il senso ritrovato
Springer 2012; US$ 31.99Stiamo vivendo una crisi sistemica, epocale, che non riguarda solo leconomia e la finanza, ma anche lecosistema, il nostro mondo di valori e la cultura su cui si è basata finora la nostra vita su questo pianeta. Di fronte a una crisi di queste proporzioni, occorre mettere in discussione il paradigma in base al quale si è organizzata... more...
The Legend of Dion
Dundurn 2008; US$ 39.99This extraordinary study examines how the accounts of a historical figure, the so-called democrat and liberal Dion, have been distorted and reworked by ancient and modern writers alike. more...









