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Author : Ivan Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Italian State written by Ivan Scott and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip James Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198225850
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Italian City-state written by Philip James Jones and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1997 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy in the Middle Ages was unique among the countries of Europe in recreating, in a changed environment, the urban civilization of antiquity - the society, culture, and political formations of city-states. This book examines the origins and nature of this phenomenon from the fall of Rome to the eve of its consummation, the Italian Renaissance. The explanation is sought in Italy's singular `double existence' between two contrasted worlds - ancient and medieval. The ancient was characterised by the total predominance of the landed aristocracy in economy and society, enforced through a peculiar system of city states embracing town and country. The new medieval influences were marked by the separation of town, country and aristocracy, by the identification of towns with trade and a mercantile bourgeoisie, and by commercial and proto-industrial revolution. Italy shared in both worlds. It remained a land of cities and of an urbanized ruling class (except in the Norman South)and re-established territorial city states; but the staes were very different from those of antiquity, the city leaders in the commercial revolution, and Italy itself seen as a nation of shopkeepers, birthplace of capitalism. In this fascinating and ground-breaking study, Philip Jones traces in detail the tension and interaction between the two traditions, civic and patrician, mercantile and bourgeois, through all phases of Italian life to their culmination in two rival regimes of communesand despots.
Author : Verity Press
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The History of Italy Unveiled written by Verity Press and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating journey through the rich tapestry of Italian history with "The History of Italy Unveiled: The Fascinating Evolution of the Italian State." From the ancient civilizations of the Etruscans to the tumultuous events of the 20th century, this book delves deep into the political intrigues, cultural triumphs, and societal transformations that have shaped Italy into the vibrant nation it is today. Discover the engineering marvels of the Etruscans, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the flourishing of art and literature during the Renaissance, and the struggles for Italian unification in the 19th century. Explore the impact of foreign invasions, the emergence of fascism, and Italy's pivotal role in World War II. Witness the economic boom of the post-war years, the challenges of social unrest, and the enduring divide between north and south. Written with meticulous research and engaging storytelling, "The History of Italy Unveiled" offers a comprehensive yet accessible account of Italy's past, shedding light on its complexities and contradictions. Whether you're a history enthusiast, a traveler captivated by Italy's charm, or simply curious about the forces that have shaped one of the world's most beloved nations, this book is an essential addition to your library. Don't miss your chance to uncover the secrets of Italy's past and gain a deeper understanding of its present. Pick up your copy of "The History of Italy Unveiled" today and embark on an unforgettable journey through the annals of time. Buona lettura! (Happy reading!)
Author : Jon S. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521666923
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820-1960 written by Jon S. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief, up-to-date account of Italy's transformation from an agrarian state to an industrial powerhouse.
Author : Lucy Riall
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415057752
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Italian Risorgimento written by Lucy Riall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian Risorgimentogives a succinct and original analysis of the period in Italian history (1815-60) known as the Risorgimento(or `resurgence'). Although Italy's pre-revolutionary rulers were restored in 1825 after the defeat of Napoleon, this restoration was vigorously opposed by a number of liberal nationalist opposition groups. In 1860, following a war between, on the one hand, France and the Northern state of Piedmont and, on the other, the Austrian Empire, the Restoration states collapsed and Italy was unified under Piedmontese leadership. National unification was seen as the culminating event of Italy's `resurgence' in the 19th century. In the last two decades, many of the assumptions of Risorgimento historiography have been challenged. The Italian Risorgimentois the first book on the subject to take a thematic rather than narrative approach and place the Italian experience in a broader European context.
Author : Stephan R. Epstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of Italian City States written by Stephan R. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathryn Lomas
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674659651
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Rome written by Kathryn Lomas and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the third century BC, the once-modest settlement of Rome had conquered most of Italy and was poised to build an empire throughout the Mediterranean basin. What transformed a humble city into the preeminent power of the region? In The Rise of Rome, the historian and archaeologist Kathryn Lomas reconstructs the diplomatic ploys, political stratagems, and cultural exchanges whereby Rome established itself as a dominant player in a region already brimming with competitors. The Latin world, she argues, was not so much subjugated by Rome as unified by it. This new type of society that emerged from Rome’s conquest and unification of Italy would serve as a political model for centuries to come. Archaic Italy was home to a vast range of ethnic communities, each with its own language and customs. Some such as the Etruscans, and later the Samnites, were major rivals of Rome. From the late Iron Age onward, these groups interacted in increasingly dynamic ways within Italy and beyond, expanding trade and influencing religion, dress, architecture, weaponry, and government throughout the region. Rome manipulated preexisting social and political structures in the conquered territories with great care, extending strategic invitations to citizenship and thereby allowing a degree of local independence while also fostering a sense of imperial belonging. In the story of Rome’s rise, Lomas identifies nascent political structures that unified the empire’s diverse populations, and finds the beginnings of Italian peoplehood.
Author : Paddy Agnew
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144811764X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Forza Italia written by Paddy Agnew and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When journalist Paddy Agnew and his girlfriend Dympna touched down in Rome in 1985 in search of adventure, sunshine and the soul of Italian football (well, Paddy was looking for that), they were travelling into the uncharted terrain of a country they did not know and a language they did not speak. It soon became clear that neither Italy nor Italian football would be boring. In that first week in Italy, Michel Platini and Juventus won the Intercontinental Cup, whilst just days later the PLO killed 13 people in a random shooting at Rome's Fiumicino airport. Paddy covered both stories. The coming years saw the rise of TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, as he became owner of AC Milan and then Prime Minister of Italy, naming his political party 'Forza Italia' after a football chant. In that same period, Argentine Diego Maradona became the uncrowned King of Naples, leading Napoli to a first ever Scudetto title in 1987, notwithstanding a hectic, Hollywood-esque lifestyle that mixed footballing genius with off-the-field excess. Forza Italia is a fascinating tale of inspired players, skilled coaches, rich tycoons, glitzy media coverage, Mafia corruption, allegations of drug taking and fan power - culminating in the 2006 World Cup victory that delighted a nation and a match-fixing scandal that shocked the world. It is also a personalised reflection on the consistent and continuing excellence of Italian football throughout a period of huge social, political and economic upheaval, offering a unique insight into a society where football has always been much more than just a game.
Author : Fiona Greenland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022675703X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Ruling Culture written by Fiona Greenland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major, on-the-ground look at antiquities looting in Italy. More looting of ancient art takes place in Italy than in any other country. Ironically, Italy trades on the fact to demonstrate its cultural superiority over other countries. And, more than any other country, Italy takes pains to prevent looting by instituting laws, cultural policies, export taxes, and a famously effective art-crime squad that has been the inspiration of novels, movies, and tv shows. In fact, Italy is widely regarded as having invented the discipline of art policing. In 2006 the then-president of Italy declared his country to be "the world's greatest cultural power." Why do Italians believe this? Why is the patria, or "homeland," so frequently invoked in modern disputes about ancient art, particularly when it comes to matters of repatriation, export, and museum loans? Fiona Greenland's Ruling Culture addresses these questions by tracing the emergence of antiquities as a key source of power in Italy from 1815 to the present. Along the way, it investigates the activities and interactions of three main sets of actors: state officials (including Art Squad agents), archaeologists, and illicit excavators and collectors"--
Author : Gino Luzzatto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136592318
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book An Economic History of Italy written by Gino Luzzatto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to provide English readers with a brief and comprehensive survey of economic life in Italy during the period of its greatest splendour: the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The wealth of Renaissance Italy was the product of centuries of growth, and the great Renaissance cities, Venice, Milan and Florence, were first and foremost centres of international trade, which taught the rest of Europe the rudiments of modern business techniques. In a masterly synthesis, based upon a lifetime of study and research, Professor Gino Luzzatto, the greatest of living Italian historians, describes the main changes in Italian economic conditions from the end of the Roman Empire, when Italy ceased to be the centre of a European state, to the end of the Middle Ages when Italy lost the leadership of European trade and banking. The narrative chapters, which deal with barbarian Italy, feudal Italy and Italy in the age of the communes, are followed by a valuable analysis of medieval agriculture, industry, commerce and finance, in her principal Italian states. The range of discussion is wide and offers an excellent introduction to the economic history not only of Italy but of the whole Mediterranean region. This classic text was first published in 1961.
Author : John Foot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152665248X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Blood and Power written by John Foot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after the rise to power of Fascism in Italy, John Foot's bracing and bold Blood and Power vividly recreates the on-the-ground experience of life under the regime. - Robert S C Gordon, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians and love for the fatherland; one that promised to build a 'New Roman Empire', and make Italy a great power again. Wearing black shirts and wielding guns, knives and truncheons, the proponents of fascism embraced a climate of violence and rampant masculinity. Led by Mussolini, they would systematically destroy the organisations of the left, murdering and torturing anyone who got in their way. In Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond. Using the accounts of real people – fascists, anti-fascists, communists, anarchists, victims, perpetrators and bystanders – he tells the story of fascism and its legacy, which still, disturbingly, reverberates to this day.
Author : Giulia Albanese
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351630741
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The March on Rome written by Giulia Albanese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to reconstruct the violent nature of the March on Rome and to emphasise its significance in demarcating a real break in the country's history and the beginning of the Fascist dictatorship. This aspect of the March has long been obscured: first by the Fascists' celebratory project, and then by the ironic and reductive interpretation of the event put forward by anti-Fascists. This volume focuses on the role and purpose of Fascist political violence from its origins. In doing so, it highlights the conflictual nature of the March by illustrating the violent impact it had on Italian institutions as well as the importance of a debate on this political turning point in Italy and beyond. The volume also examines how the event crucially contributed to the construction of a dictatorial political regime in Italy in the weeks following Mussolini's appointment as head of the government. Originally published in Italian, this book fills a notable gap in current critical discussion surrounding the March in the English language.
Author : Julian Voje
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638181928
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Italian-American Relations - the Perspective of the US Government written by Julian Voje and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: 2 (B), University of Bonn (Political Science), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: The view of the United States of America concerning Italy after Benito Mussolini’s “March on Rome” was important for the whole of Europe. The political course of the fascist country also affected the surrounding European states. In the primary phase of the fascist regime, the U.S. government was in the position to alter parts of Italy’s policy course, by applying political pressure. Thus America’s foreign policy towards Italy did not only concern this one country. It also had consequences for the rest of Europe, and the start of the Second World War. This work is concerned with the view of the successive American administrations towards Italy after Mussolini’s ascension to power. Questions being answered are: How did the U.S. government react after the fascist ruler took over Italy? Did the administration valuate Mussolini as a positive or a negative change for the European country? Was a thread visible in the U.S. attitude concerning Italy? What were the government’s reactions to Italy’s cooperation with Hitler? And: Could a different American political strategy concerning Italy have hindered Hitler’s war efforts? To answer those questions, the work is structured along three main parts. The first part is addressed with the U.S. government’s position after Benito Mussolini’s soaring to power. This part is divided into a description of America’s characterization of the new leader and an account of the first times the U.S. questioned their view on Italy. Following this evaluation, the second part deals with the American view in the times of The Great Depression. The third part is concerned with the administrations view after Hitler’s rise to power. Finally the conclusion marks the end of this work. Mainly four books were used: David F Schmitz’ “The United States and fascist Italy, 1922 – 1940” gives a well structured and informative overview of the American – Italian relations from Mussolini’s ascension to power, until the begin of The Second World War. Another useful book, in the first parts handling this topic, is H. Stuart Hughes’ “The United States and Italy”1. John P. Diggins’ work “ Mussolini and Fascism: The view from America”2 is mainly concerned with the public opinion in the U.S. toward Italy and very informative. Another well written and informative book dealing with America’s foreign policy is William L. Langer’s and S. Everett Gleason’s book “The challenge to isolation: The world crisis of 1937 – 1940 and American foreign policy”.
Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198716168
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Pope and Mussolini written by David I. Kertzer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Book Award-finalist David Kertzer, it will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.
Author : Anthony L. Cardoza
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199982578
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern Italy written by Anthony L. Cardoza and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Italy addresses the question of how Italy's modern history, from its prolonged process of nation-building in the nineteenth century to the crises of the last two decades, has produced a paradoxical blend of hyper-modernity and traditionalism and thus made the country"different" in the broader context of Western Europe.The text explores how Italians have experienced seismic shifts in their social and economic landscape over the past two centuries, while simultaneously maintaining older cultural norms, social practices, and political methods. As a second objective, the book showcases a narrative of modern Italythat incorporates and blends the research findings and methodological insights of the new quantitative and cultural historical scholarship of the past two and a half decades. In doing so, it chronicles the regime changes that have taken the country from a Liberal monarchy through the Fascistdictatorship to a Democratic Republic while also delving into the simultaneous economic and social history of the nation through these periods.
Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472080991
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Early Medieval Italy written by Chris Wickham and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the social and economic development of Italy
Author : Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437003727
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Italy written by Henry Dwight Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
