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  • - The Geopolitics of a Troubled Identity
    af Manlio Graziano
    571,95 - 725,95 kr.

    This book explains Italy s endless political instability and its historical, cultural and economic roots. This book explains why today it is possible to describe "berlusconism" - a cultural, political and social phenomenon in Italy- as the most recent version of this country s autobiography.

  • - Reconfiguring the Margins
     
    1.782,95 kr.

    This book is the first dedicated volume of academic analysis on the monumental work of Elena Ferrante, Italy's most well-known contemporary writer.

  • - The Fadda Affair
    af T. Simpson
    692,95 - 725,95 kr.

    An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself.

  • - Stranger than Fact
    af David Ward
    1.094,95 - 1.101,95 kr.

    This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors.

  • - Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film
    af Graziella Parati
    785,95 - 1.437,95 kr.

    It argues that the narrative authored by migrants, refugees, second generation women, and one "native Italian" perform a reparative reading of Italian spaces in order to engender reparative narratives. Migrants writers seem to employ both positive and negative affects in defining the past, present, and future of the spaces they inhabit.

  • - Mona Lisa Covergirl
    af Emma Barron
    1.020,95 kr.

    When Mona Lisa smiled enigmatically from the cover of the Italian magazine Epoca in 1957, she gazed out at more than three million readers.

  • - Boundaries and Identity
     
    1.204,95 kr.

    As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals,inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and anew epistemological and ethical approach to reality is needed.

  • af Maristella Cantini
    692,95 - 1.195,95 kr.

    Featuring essays by top scholars and interviews with acclaimed directors, this book examines Italian women's authorship in film and their visions of reality. The contributors use feminist film criticism in the analysis of their works and give direct voices to the artists who are constantly excluded by the conventional Italian film criticism.

  • - Interpretation, Reception, and Intellectual Heritage
     
    838,95 kr.

    Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences contemporary research. This volume provides a re-examination of his historiographical production and an analysis of his influence in the context of Italian history.

  • - Femininity under Fire in Italy
    af Allison Scardino Belzer
    566,95 - 879,95 kr.

    Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. Because of the Great War, many women seized the opportunity to participate in a society that continued to recognize them as guardians of the nation.

  • - Italian Women Writers, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust
    af Stefania Lucamante
    653,95 - 1.195,95 kr.

    Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop.

  • - A Historical Interpretation
    af Giovanni Orsina
    680,95 - 1.062,95 kr.

    From the outset, Silvio Berlusconi's career was expected to be short, and he has been considered finished several times, only to have reemerged victorious. This fascinating political and historical study shows that Berlusconi's success and resilience have lain in his ability to provide answers to longstanding questions in Italian history.

  • - Interpretation, Reception, and Intellectual Heritage
     
    838,95 kr.

    Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences contemporary research. This volume provides a re-examination of his historiographical production and an analysis of his influence in the context of Italian history.

  • - Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini
    af Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto
    1.235,95 kr.

    Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at stigmatization were self-undermining, forcing audiences to reassess their collective identity.

  • - Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity
    af Simonetta Milli Konewko
    1.250,95 kr.

    Neorealism and the "New" Italy centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions.

  • - Competing Narratives of Nationhood
    af Bjorn Thomassen & Rosario Forlenza
    1.460,95 kr.

    By revisiting Italian political history from the late nineteenth century until the present with a focus on transition periods, Italian Modernities explores how competing historical narratives influenced shifting understandings of Italian nationhood, thus foregrounding the active role of memory politics in the formulation of multiple modernities.

  • - Revisiting Sant' Anna di Stazzema
    af Paolo Pezzino
    549,95 - 769,95 kr.

    This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were charged with destroying anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi partisans. Paolo Pezzino not only reconstructs the events, but deals with the "forgetting" of the massacre.

  • - Portrait of a Rebel
    af N. Pernicone
    578,95 kr.

    In his heyday, Carlo Tresca ranked among the most important radicals and labour activists in the United States, often sharing the spotlight with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 'Big Bill' Haywood, and Emma Goldman.

  • - An Early Modern History
    af G. Hanlon
    670,95 kr.

    Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the Seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us.

  • - Triumph and Transformation of a Revolutionary Socialist
     
    1.861,95 kr.

    It provides an in-depth treatment of the young Benito Mussolini as a revolutionary Socialist and describes the political maneuverings that took a major European Socialist party by storm before the First World War.

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    1.099,95 kr.

    Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization.

  • - Portrait of a Rebel
    af N. Pernicone
    962,95 kr.

    In his heyday, Carlo Tresca ranked among the most important radicals and labour activists in the United States, often sharing the spotlight with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 'Big Bill' Haywood, and Emma Goldman.

  • af J. Delamater & M. Trasciatti
    683,95 kr.

    Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested outside Boston in 1920 and charged with robbing and killing a shoe factory paymaster and his guard.

  • af Carlo Celli & Marga Cottino-Jones
    614,95 - 989,95 kr.

    This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to the popular films which achieved box office success among the public.

  • - Germaine de Stael and the Idea of Italy
    af R. Casillo
    989,95 kr.

    This book places Germaine de Stael's influential novel, Corrine, or Italy (1807) in relation to preceding and subsequent stereotypes of Italy as seen in the works of Northern European and American travel writers since the Renaissance.

  • - Children and Danger in the Liberal Era
    af C. Ipsen
    879,95 kr.

    Detailing the development of a new Western attitude to children and their place in society, this book tells the story of Italy's forgotten children at the end of the nineteenth century - foundlings, street children, factory and mine workers, emigrants and delinquents - and illustrates the efforts of the recently unified Italian state to help them.

  • - An Early Modern History
    af G. Hanlon
    879,95 kr.

    Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the Seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us.

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    1.099,95 kr.

    Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization.

  • - Transformations in Society and Culture
     
    962,95 kr.

    An extraordinary series of murders and political assassinations has marked contemporary Italian history, from the killing of the king in 1900 to the assassination of former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. This book explores well-known and lesser-known assassinations and murders in their historical, political and cultural contexts.

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