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Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieve......more

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This book introduces a compelling new personality to the modernist canon, Marisa Mori (1900-1985), who became the only f......more

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The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intel......more

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The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BC Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on......more

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This book provides the first detailed study of healthcare during the period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968-19......more

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Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government’s initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historic......more

This book explores the path that led to the Treaty of Rapallo (1920) between Italy and the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Cro......more

This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflect......more

In the spring of 1757, the Augustinian friar Leopoldo di San Pasquale was tried in Naples by the hierarchies of his own ......more

This book reassesses the history of Italian communism in international perspective. Analyzing the rise and fall of the I......more

In the first book to examine the role played by textile manufacturing in the development of fashion in Italy, A New Hist......more

Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role ......more

The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece--the Venetian mappa mundi--that revolutionized how we see the world......more

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Italian graphic design offers a new perspective on the subject by exploring the emergence and articulation of graphic de......more

The racism and antisemitism of Fascist Italy have often been described as ’mild’, ’cultural’, ’spiritual’, and essential......more

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This book is the first English-language collection of scholarly essays to investigate the ambiguous and supporting role ......more

Reveals a dark chapter in the Italian government’s colonial history that has been largely hidden from view. Between the ......more

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From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing" --The Was......more

The first comprehensive history of an Italian revolutionary group that fought fascism in interwar Europe and pursued a l......more

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century It......more

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Detention camps exceed the juridical concept of punishment and crime. This book comprises two parts: 1. a collected volu......more

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As well as being Emperor of the French it is often forgotten, or simply overlooked, that Napoleon was also King of Italy......more

A leading travel writer guides readers on a sumptuous journey through time and flavor to understand how and why wine tra......more

This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history an......more

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494-c.1559. Far from being ......more

The text represents a long journey in the debate that characterized the multifaceted political phenomenon of neofascism.......more

Italian Forgers takes an unorthodox approach to the fascinating topic of art forgery, focusing not on art forgery per se......more

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Analyzes the principal Italian military operations in East Africa, with particular focus on the period between 1940 and ......more

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