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  • Machiavelli’s Prince

    Traditions, Text and Translations

    by Nicola Gardini, Martin McLaughlin ...
    One of the high-points of Italian Renaissance humanism, Machiavelli’s The Prince immediately transcended the time and culture from which it had sprung, circulating throughout Europe and paving the road to an astonishing variety of discussions on power and liberty for centuries to come. Indeed, one could hardly think of a literary work whose reception has been more controversial and arguably more ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Republicanism

    A Theoretical and Historical Perspective

    by Fabrizio Ricciardelli, Marcello Fantoni ...
    We live in a world in which almost all states purport to be republican. Very few adhere to the Ciceronian concept of res publica, understood as “that which belongs to the popolo (respublica respopuli) […] and which has the observance of the law and the commonality of interests as its foundation”. The concept of republicanism is traditionally connected to the principle that true political freedom ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples

    Politics, Communication and Culture

    by Domenico Cecere, Chiara De Caprio, Lorenza Gianfrancesco, Pasquale Palmieri ...
    This volume deals with natural disasters in late medieval and early modern central and southern Italy. Contributions look at a range of catastrophic events such as eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, floods, earthquakes, and outbreaks of plague and epidemics. A major aim of this volume is to investigate the relationship between catastrophic events and different communication strategies that embraced ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Samarkand

    Living the City in the Soviet Era and beyond

    by Marco Buttino ...
    Samarkand, located along the Silk Road, has a history that is often confused with a fabled image of the East. This book, however, deals with a real city, narrating the changes that took place while it was part of the USSR and in the period following, all the way up to the present. In Samarkand, the passage between these two eras reflects the broader transformation that affected Uzbekistan and the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Women’s History at the Cutting Edge

    An Italian Perspective

    by Autori Vari ...
    What have the achievements of Women’s and Gender History, as a field of study, been in Italy? To what extent has it succeeded in making women’s history an integral part of academic enquiry rather than an optional specialist area? What impact has the study of manhood and masculinities had on our understanding of women’s lives? What is the relationship between gender studies and new critical ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Compel People to Come In

    Violence and Catholic Conversions in the non-European World

    by Autori Vari ...
    “Compelle intrare”: since the time of St Augustine, St Luke’s words in the parable of the Banquet have served as a justification for forced conversion to Christianity. Challenging this tradition, in 1686 Pierre Bayle denounced how a literal interpretation of the parable had led to a long line of crimes, and argued that “nothing is more abominable than obtaining conversion by coercion”. In recent ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Regional History as Cultural Identity

    by Fabrizio Ricciardelli, Kenneth J. Bindas ...
    This book brings together scholars to reflect upon the significance and meaning of local and regional history, focusing on how these histories impact people’s cultural identity through traditions, culture, language, and politics. Scholars from all over the world analyze the process of communal identity construction ‒ the feeling of belonging to one state or nation regardless of one’s legal ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Italian Pop Culture

    Media, Products, Imageries

    by Fabio Corsini ...
    What does the expression pop culture mean today? And how does it contribute to understanding a Country and a cultural group? This collection of essays, diverse in content, approach and perspective, tries to answer these questions. It aims at describing and figuring out the texture of Italian pop culture – as a meaningful juxtaposition between high and low, mass and elite, artistic and consumerist ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Papacy, Religious Orders, and International Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    by Autori Vari ...
    During the early modern age religious orders had to interpret papal strategies and directives in international politics in the light of a substantial ambiguity. They were loyal subjects of the pope, but also trusted agents and advisers of princes. They were operatives of the Holy See and, at the same time, of strategies not necessarily in line with Roman guidelines. This ambiguity resulted in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The American Exceptionalism Revisited

    by Marcello Fantoni, Leonardo Morlino ...
    When looking at the US from a European perspective a sort of paradox immediately emerges. On the one hand, the ‘American way of life’ has been penetrating in depth our everyday life and, even more, our Western culture through the music, the movies, the literature and all possible consumerist habits. But, on the other hand, all recurrent statements have been emphasizing the ‘American exceptionalism ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Disciplined Dissent

    Strategies of Non-Confrontational Protest in Europe from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century

    by Autori Vari ...
    Inspired by current debates around political confrontation and the exercise of power, Fabrizio Titone offers an interpretation based on the concept of disciplined dissent. This interpretation is centred on the notion of diffused power and is designed to transcend the binary distinction consensus/resistance. The aim is to identify the conservative process involved in mounting a critique, a protest, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The March on Rome: How Antifascists Understood the Origins of Totalitarianism (and Conied the Word)

    by Emilio Gentile ...
    «Amendola attribuiva […] un nuovo è più ampio significato al termine "totalitario" da lui coniato: totalitario non era solo il sistema di dominio politico del fascismo, ma "spirito totalitario" era la pretesa del fascismo di estendere il proprio dominio sulle coscienze degli italiani, obbligandoli a convertirsi alla sua ideologia come una religione politica integralista ed esclusiva ». Un'acuta ... Read more

    $9.99 USD