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Italy & Its Discontents 1980 2001
by Paul Ginsborg  Publisher Comments Ginsborg discusses the role of family in Italian society and argues that it plays a vital role in the country's politics and business. Written by a Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence this title should prove...
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Bloom's Literary Places #6: Rome (Lit Places)
by Brett And Hal Marcovitz Foster Publisher Comments - Each title features: <BR>- An overview of the city as it exists today, detailing population, culture, politics, and major attractions<BR>- A unique combination of cultural and literary history<BR>- Visitor information for many of the...
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The Jews in Sicily; V.12: Notaries of Palermo; PT.3.
by Shlomo Simonsohn Book News Annotation Volume 12 of The Jews in Sicily series, this meticulously thorough resource of primary sources identifies primary legal documents, the majority appearing in publication for the first time. These documents include notarial deeds drawn by Palermo public...
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Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony
by Paul Ginsborg Publisher Comments The leading historian of contemporary Italy and animator of civil resistance to Berlusconi, unravels the phenomenon of the media magnate-prime minister, with wit, intelligence and rigour....
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Italy in Nineteenth Century 1796-1900 (00 Edition)
by John A. Davis Publisher Comments Covering the period from the French Revolution to the end of the 19th Century, this volume sets the events leading to Italian Unification and the creation of an independent Italian state in the broader context of 19th-century European history...
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Italy: The Enduring Culture
by Jonathan White Publisher Comments This study of dynamic continuities, as well as crises and fissures in Italian culture, takes an interdisciplinary approach. Its coverage extends to literature, art history, opera, film, sexuality, urbanism, the mafia, and population movements of...
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Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World
by Peter Depiro 
Publisher Comments A 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? <BR>"Sprezzatura," or the art of effortless mastery, was...
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Medieval Mediterranean #63: The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-C.1400
by Roisin Cossar Publisher Comments This book examines the tension between social mores and religious activities among the laity in the Italian diocese of Bergamo during the later Middle Ages (1265-c.1400), employing a range of archival sources to illuminate the complexity of late medieval...
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A Military History of Italy
by Ciro Paoletti Publisher Comments Following Italy's military history from the late Renaissance to the present day, this book shows the role Italy has played in struggles for power in Europe and the role the military has played in forming the modern Italian nation-state....
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The Italian Revolution: The End of Politics, Italian Style?
by Mark Gilbert Publisher Comments Since 1992, Italy has been rocked by the disintegration of its traditional ruling elite as dozens of leading politicians have been accused of corruption, extortion, and Mafia ties. The two linchpins of the former governing coalition, the Christian...
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A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present
by Patrizia Palumbo Publisher Comments A collection of essays examining Italian colonial history in Africa form its origins to the present....
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Adrianopole Ad 378: The Goths Crush Rome's Legions (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
by Simon Macdowall Publisher Comments Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals." Thus the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus recorded the battle of Adrianople. It was such a crushing Roman defeat by Gothic cavalry that the...
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Pietros Book
by Pietro Pinti Synopsis Pietro is a typical Tuscan peasant. He worked the land with hoe and plough from his earliest youth. Born, he explains, "in the Middle Ages", he has lived to see the world he knew and loved pass into history. Here, Jenny Bawtree provides an account of...
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Violence in Late Antiquity; Perceptions and Practices.
by H.a. Drake Book News Annotation Scholars of history and literature in the US and Europe present 27 papers from the March 2003 Shifting Frontiers Conference, held in Santa Barbara, California. Violence is so heavily associated in late antiquity that few have thought to study it, but...
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Trac 2005: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Birmingham 2005
by Ben Croxford Et Al Publisher Comments TRAC 2005 was held at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, under the auspices of The Roman Society. Of the twenty-three papers delivered there, this volume presents eight, plus three special contributions. These three...
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Garibaldi: Hero of Italian Unification
by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prowess extended to the Americas, where he played a major role in the Brazilian struggle for...
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Tuscany Flying High (Flying High)
by Antonio Attini Publisher Comments A welcome addition to White Star's renowned aerial presentation series, this handsome, compact volume takes readers on a spectacular journey over one of Italy's most beloved regions. These images reveal facets of Tuscany that are off-the-beaten track...
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The Jews in Sicily; V.11: Notaries of Palermo; PT. 2.
by Shlomo Simonsohn Book News Annotation Picking up where he left off at the end of the first volume, Simonsohn (emeritus Jewish history, Tel Aviv U.) continues compiling notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere to cast light on the economic, social, and religious...
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Pavia 1525: The Climax of the Italian Wars (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments By 1525, France had been campaigning in Italy for over 30 years. Her original intention, in 1494, had been to enforce her claim to the kingdom of Naples, but by the turn of the century her attention had focused on the more accessible and richer Duchy of...
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Mattanza: The Ancient Sicilian Ritual of Bluefin Tuna Fishing
by Theresa Maggio Publisher Comments In 1986, love drew Theresa Maggio to Favignana, an island just off the coast of Sicily. There the young journalist encountered the mysterious world of the tonnara-the ritual trapping and killing of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea-and the mattanza...
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