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Italic Identity in Pluralistic Contexts; Toward the Development of Intercultural Competencies.
by Piero Bassetti And Paolo Janni  Book News Annotation American and Italian social scientists and religious scholars, and an Italian diplomat, investigate how people with very different past experiences and present political loyalties, both in and beyond Italy, share common feelings toward many old and...
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Armed Struggle in Italy 1976-78: A Chronology
by Elephant Editions Publisher Comments An incredible anthology. Not only was there an amazing amount of armed actions in Italy at this time, but those chronicled here (and there are 100s of them) were those carried out by autonomous/anarchist groups/affinity groups, not by the Red Brigades...
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Journalistic Advocates & Muckrakers: Three Centuries of Crusading Writers
by Edd Applegate Publisher Comments Advocacy has been a feature of journalism since the early days of the profession, with columnists and editors attempting to sway popular opinion and influence public policy through their writings. Though it is quite different in format, muckraking, or...
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Charity & State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di Pieta of Florence
by Carol Bresn Menning Book News Annotation Founded in 1495, the monte di pieta of Florence was envisioned as a source of cheap credit for the poor that would supplant the city's Jewish pawnbrokers. Menning (history, U. of Toledo) examines the evolution of the Florentine monte from a small...
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Fallen Order Intrigue Heresy & Scandal
by Karen Liebreich Publisher Comments Subtitled, "Intrigue, Heresy & Scandal In The Rome Of Galileo & Caravaggio". This book reveals how the patron saint of Catholic Schools covered up the first recorded child sex scandal in the Catholic Church....
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Corruption :ethics and power in Florence, 1600-1770
by Jean Claude Waquet Book News Annotation A shocking revelation that once upon a time, government officials actually embezzled public money and took bribes. Waquet (early modern history, U. of Strassbourg) uses the example of Florence, and a critical review of previous studies on the topic...
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A moral art :grammar, society, and culture in Trecento Florence
by Paul F Gehl Book News Annotation A study of the teaching of Latin grammar at Florence in the early Renaissance, providing a case study of educational conservatism in action. Shows how the teachers, far from encouraging stylistic and philosophical innovation, acted as a brake on the...
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The Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist: Caroline Carson's Letters Home, 1872-1892 (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South)
by William H. Pease And Jane H. Pease Book News Annotation A selection from the more than 300 surviving letters Carson (1820-92) wrote to James Carson, designed to exhibit her personal, social, and artistic life in Rome. She went there at age 52 just to view the art treasures and perfect her skills as a...
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Trac 2004: The 14th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
by James Bruhn Et Al Publisher Comments The fourteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held at the University of Durham Department of Archaeology, March 2004. The papers present and discuss information drawn from as wide a range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire as the...
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Italian days
by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Publisher Comments This book is a journey down the Italian peninsula that will make even the most experienced traveler relive its splendor anew. Harrison offers a fascinating mixture of Italian history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, art, and literature....
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Italy--Republic Without Government? (Comparative Modern Governments)
by Pa Allum Publisher Comments This new study of the government of Italy is divided into three parts: Italian society, Italian civil society-the organizations commonly called 'private'-and the Italian state. Part I outlines the historical, economic, social, and cultural background of...
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Crime Disorder & the Risorgimento :The Politics of Policing in Bologna
by Steven C Hughes Publisher Comments A close examination of the papal police in the city and province of Bologna prior to Italian unification....
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Trac 2006
by Ben Croxford Et Al Synopsis The sixteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held in Cambridge in March 2006. The issues of identity - its expression and recognition - were at the forefront of consideration. Sessions also looked at public and private religion...
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Secrets of the Fascist era :how Uncle Sam obtained some of the top-level documents of Mussolini's period
by Howard Mcgaw Smyth Publisher Comments This account of the capture and validation of Italian-Fascist state papers during World War II, some of which only re-cently have been declassified, is the stuff of high-level intelligence and counter-espionage. In an account that reads like a detective...
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Venice an Illustrated Anthology
by Michael Marqusee Book News Annotation A compilation of excerpts from the works of poets and novelists who have been inspired by Venice during its 600 year history. The selections are captioned and thoughtfully arranged. An abundantly illustrated homage. Indexed by name. No bibliography...
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State, market, and social regulation :new perspectives on Italy
by Peter Lange Publisher Comments Recent scholarship on the role of the state in designing regulatory policies in industrialized democracies has identified a shift from the increasingly direct role of the state in the 1970s to a diminishing role in the 1980s. The question of the changing...
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Italy
by Lucio Sponza Publisher Comments Italy has transformed itself in the last fifty years, changing from a rural society into one of the seven wealthiest nations in the world. This is despite the fact that Italy has had to cope with many apparent contradictions, such as the twin influences...
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The Broken Fountain
by Thomas Belmonte Publisher Comments Belmonte describes life in an impoverished Naples, Italy, neighborhood, where casual criminality and anger set the tone....
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
by Jan Morris 
From Powells.com Jan Morris first visited Trieste, now part of Italy, at the end of World War II. At the time, she was a young Welsh soldier named James. She went on to become, not only a she (Morris changed genders in 1972), but one of the most distinguished...
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Mazzini
by Denis Mark Smith Publisher Comments The book is based on scholarship and archival research and reconstructs Mazzini's long years in exile, his friendships with the greatest figures of the age (Marx, Carylye and Bakunin, amongst others) and the political and intellectual world of the mid...
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