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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder of modern art history and as one of the key thinkers of the nineteenth century, Burckhardt changed not only the way we think about the Renaissance in relation to European and world history, but the value placed on art as a tool for understanding historical developments.
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What drives terrorists to glorify violence? In The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy, Richard Drake seeks to explain the origins of Italian terrorism and the role that intellectuals played in valorizing the use of violence for political or social ends.
Drake argues that a combination of socioeconomic factors and the influence of intellectual elites led to a sanctioning of violence by revolutionary political groups in Italy...
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Restless Classics presents a trenchant new edition of Machiavelli's most powerful works of political philosophy, including The Prince and selections from Discourses on Livy, introduced by New Yorker writer and biographer of Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson.
Few authors achieve such notoriety that their name becomes an adjective. A "Machiavellian" politician is not simply one who is conniving; the term also refers to a tyrant who is enamored with all the...
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Those are the memories of a little girl growing up in the most racist place in Italy, if not Europe while being raised by traditional parents with an old school mentality.
Old school left-leaning radicals with old school Italian habits.
All around the late '80s, when everybody was forgetting previous ideologies and looking from the edge of the old World at all the hopes of justice and equality dissolving in the name of the only civic duty capitalism...
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In this second volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams continues his argument against Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and his theories of "collecting all authority into one center."
Delving into the Italian republics of the middle age, Adams uses pure history, extensive extracts from the works of Italian historians, to demonstrate to the American people, and the world, that the same tumult,...
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This book contains Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli's 1532 historical account, "History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy". A fascinating history of Florence by one of the most celebrated and accomplished political minds in history, this volume is not to be missed by those with an interest in Italian history and Machiavelli's seminal work. Many vintage books such as this had been becoming increasingly scarce or expensive. This volume is now...
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Originally published in 1936, this is an examination of the rise and rule of fascism in Italy. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Part One, The "Corporative State" - The Origins of Fascist "Syndicalism" - The Vidoni...
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In May 2017, the day after Moon Jae-in was elected as president of South Korea, Ryuho Okawa used his extraordinary spiritual power (similar to but surpassing Shakyamuni Buddha's) and summoned Moon's guardian spirit, namely his subconscious mind, to have him speak his opinion. In a subsequent spiritual investigation, it was found that Moon is the rebirth of Mussolini, who also led a peninsular nation of Italy with his Fascist party during WWII. This...
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Chris Wickham is professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Oxford.
A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian commune
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally...
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Surgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned, including the colonial devastation of Libya and Ethiopia.
Legend would have it that Mussolini put roofs over Italians' heads, developed the economy, had trains running on time, stood up for justice and against...
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This collection of essays aims to give a picture - albeit partial - of the history of the Jews in Italy from Unity to today. The Church's anti-Jewish policy is re-examined, as evidenced by the relevant traces in Renaissance figurative art, the position of the Jews from the Unification to the First World War and their participation in public affairs / social and political life, which studies confirm also important to the internal fascism until a few...
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A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism
Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a Milan square, as reviled in death as he was adored in life. With Italy's defeat in World War II, the cult of Benito Mussolini's physical self was brought to its grotesque denouement by a frenzied, jeering...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" A. James Gregor is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Italian Fascism and Developmental Dictatorship and The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics (Princeton), and The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century (Yale). He has been awarded the title Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic by the Italian government...
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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (1883-1945) fue un político italiano. En 1914 funda el grupo Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria que más tarde, en 1922, se convertiría en el conocido Partido Nacional Fascista). En ese momento, Italia se enfrentaba a una profunda crisis desde su unificación y la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) había empeorado la situación. Mussolini prometió, con el fascismo, traer de vuelta el apogeo del antiguo Imperio Romano....
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In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor in rapidly industrializing nations, including the United States. Many Americans of northern and western European ancestry regarded these newcomers as biologically and culturally inferior--unassimilable--and by 1924, the United States had instituted national origins...
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Après plus de quarante ans de grande stabilité politique, l'Italie est entrée, depuis la fin des années 1980, dans une ère de bouleversements sans équivalent en Europe. Sous la pression des événements internationaux et de ses propres déficiences, c'est en effet tout le modèle économique et ...
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"Winner of the 2018 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association" Axel Körner is professor of modern history at University College London and director of the UCL Centre for Transnational History. His books include Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy and America Imagined.
America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth...
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During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy.
In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation...
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The Battle of Anzio was among the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T. R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of the Allied forces' fight for survival on an Italian beach as they stormed what Winston Churchill called the soft underbelly of the Axis powers. In one of the turning points of the war, the allies clung to a narrow strip of sand while German planes swooped in from above and artillery shells and mortar fire...
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