Télécharger le livre :  Towards a Unified Italy

Since unification in 1860, Italy has remained bitterly divided between the rich North and the underdeveloped South. This book examines the historical, literary, and cultural contexts that have informed and inflamed the debate on the Southern Question for over a century....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-18
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  La Mamma

The idea of the “mamma italiana” is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy. This figure makes frequent appearances in jokes and other forms of popular culture, but it has also...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-07
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Mussolini and the Salò Republic, 1943–1945

This book is a long overdue in-depth study of the Italian Social Republic. Set up in 1943 by Hitler in the town of Salò on Lake Garda and ruled by Mussolini, this makeshift government was a last-ditch effort to ensure the survival of Fascism, ending with the murder of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-31
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Italian Motherhood on Screen

This book is the first scholarly analysis that considers the specificity of situated experiences of the maternal from a variety of theoretical perspectives.  From “Fertility Day” to “Family Day,” the concept of motherhood has been at the center of the public debate...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-14
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy

This book is about migrants’ lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan. At the core of the book is literature as written by migrants, members of a “second generation,” and a filmmaker who defines himself as native. It argues that the narrative authored by...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-15
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies

This book illuminates a lesser-known aspect of the British history of travel in the Enlightenment: that of the Royal Society’s special contribution to the “discovery” of the south of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. By exploring primary source journal entries of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-09
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Italian Academies and their Networks, 1525-1700

Italian Academies have typically been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, leaving an important lacuna in the scholarship onItalian culture and early modernity. Cutting across various disciplines, this volume traces the relationships of these...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-21
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy

This book analyzes the role and function of an Italian deportation camp during and immediately after World War Two within the context of Italian, European, and Holocaust history. Drawing upon archival documents, trial proceedings, memoirs, and testimonies, Herr...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-14
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature

This book is about the presence of utopian and dystopian elements in the Italian literary landscape. It focuses on four authors that are representatives of the various positions in the Italian cultural debate: Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, and Volponi. What did...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-13
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism

This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-13
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy

This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini’s regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime’s incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-08
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture

This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-28
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Mussolini 1883-1915

This book describes Mussolini’s little-known radical ideology, including his activities in Switzerland, relationship with revolutionary syndicalism, and radical journalism. It provides an in-depth treatment of the young Benito Mussolini as a revolutionary Socialist and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-05
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Office of Strategic Services and Italian Americans

This book explores the contributions of Italian Americans employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Italian Americans fluent in Italian language and customs became integral parts of intelligence operations working behind enemy lines. These...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-05
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Italian Modernities

This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-30
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country.This study explores the ways in which...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-11
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Neorealism and the "New" Italy

Neorealism and the "New" Italy centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions. Simonetta Milli Konewko proposes that compassion as an emotion may be activated to unify certain individuals and communities...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-20
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Objects in Italian Life and Culture

This book makes visible the hidden relations between things and individuals through a discussion of creative processes and cultural practices. Italian life and culture are filled with objects that cross, accompany, facilitate or disrupt experience, desires, and dreams....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-10
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Fascist Hybridities

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-05
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Two Mafias

A realistic understanding of the mafia must avoid depictions both of a monolithic organization and of localized, isolated groups. Here, renowned historian Salvatore Lupo analyzes the mafia as a network of varied relationships and institutions, the result of a complex...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-08-05
Collection : Italian and Italian American Studies
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