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Italy and the Islamic World: From Caesar to Mussolini by Ali Humayun Akhtar 9781399519625
RRP: €29.74€27.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399519625Author Ali Humayun AkhtarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Fashioning Submission: Documenting Fashion, Taste and Identity in WWII Italy through “Bellezza” Magazine by Silvia Vacirca 9788869774218
€24.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869774218Author Silvia VacircaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International -
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality by Rebecca Messbarger 9781442637184
RRP: €84.49€73.26Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740-58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European... -
Translating Faith: Ethiopian Pilgrims in Renaissance Rome by Samantha Kelly 9780674294172
RRP: €54.68€44.14A revealing account of the lives and work of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome, examining how this African diasporic community navigated the challenges of religious pluralism in the capital of Latin Christianity.Tucked behind the apse... -
Vesuvius by Gillian Darley 9780674503779
RRP: €38.08€27.29Volcanoes around the world have their own legends, and many have wrought terrible devastation, but none has caught the imagination like Vesuvius. We now know that immense eruptions destroyed Bronze Age settlements around Vesuvius, but the Romans knew... -
Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema by Ruth Ben-Ghiat 9780253015525
RRP: €83.30€72.24Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini's government that took as their subjects or settings Italy's African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were... -
Roger II of Sicily: Family, Faith, and Empire in the Medieval Mediterranean World by Dawn Marie Hayes 9782503581408
€115.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503581408Author Dawn Marie HayesFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm *... -
Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Italy by Catherine Kovesi 9782503580111
€142.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503580111Author Catherine KovesiFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 862g -
Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music: The Devotional Practice of Lauda Singing in Late-Renaissance Italy by Eyolf Ostrem 9782503520667
€82.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503520667Author Eyolf OstremFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 780g -
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History by Marc Millon 9781911723073
RRP: €23.80€21.23The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities—and, of course, its wine. From the ancient Greeks to the Medici, and from fascism to feminism, writer and wine expert Marc Millon reveals... -
Fashioning Italian Youth: Young People's Identity and Style in Italian Popular Culture, 1958-75 by Cecilia Brioni 9781526162007
RRP: €95.20€83.54Fashioning Italian youth examines popular media representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices from 1958-75. By looking at visual and written representations of transnational youth trends - like urlatori, amici, beats and... -
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People by Jessica Wärnberg 9781639365210
RRP: €38.08€24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365210Author Jessica WärnbergFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 658g -
Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention by Stephanie Malia Hom 9781501739897
RRP: €128.52€111.15Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions. Empire's Mobius Strip investigates how mobile populations were perceived to be major threats to Italian colonization, and how the... -
Blue China by Bamboo Hirst 9780952942689
RRP: €16.07€14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952942689Author Bamboo HirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Loki Books LtdPublisher Loki Books Ltd -
The Devil and the Dolce Vita: Catholic Attempts to Save Italy's Soul, 1948-1974 by Roy Domenico 9780813234335
RRP: €41.59€39.60Italy's economic expansion after World War Two triggered significant social and cultural change. Secularization accompanied this development and triggered alarm bells across the nation's immense Catholic community. The Devil and the 'Dolce Vita' is the... -
Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy by Paula Findlen 9780804739351
RRP: €33.31€28.73For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence-as a city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond... -
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul by E. Natalie Rothman 9780801449079
RRP: €54.74€48.11In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial brokers, religious converts, and... -
Social World of Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460 by Lauro Martines 9780691625263
RRP: €65.45€51.54A picture of representative humanists of the Quattrocento, based on manuscript material in the Florence state archives. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available... -
History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape by Emilio Sereni 9780691601670
RRP: €69.02€54.95Emilio Sereni's classic work is now available in an English language edition. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape is a synthesis of the agricultural history of Italy in its economic, social, and ecological context, from antiquity to the... -
America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865 by Axel Korner 9780691164854
RRP: €53.55€42.51America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Axel Korner shows how Italian political thought... -
In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns by Dario Gaggio 9780691126975
RRP: €83.30€74.39In Gold We Trust is a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry--even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before,... -
The Medicean Succession: Monarchy and Sacral Politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence by Gregory Murry 9780674725478
RRP: €63.01€50.59In 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old... -
A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought by Mark Jurdjevic 9780674725461
RRP: €61.82€49.67Like many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride,... -
Reviving the Eternal City: Rome and the Papal Court, 1420-1447 by Elizabeth M. McCahill 9780674724532
RRP: €64.20€51.49In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of... -
Lost and Found: Locating Foundlings in the Early Modern World by Nicholas Terpstra 9780674296169
RRP: €45.16€36.78Florence’s foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. Its progressive approach to caring for abandoned children was matched by the iconic architectural form designed one of the period’s... -
The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy by Richard Drake 9780253057129
RRP: €73.78€63.74What drives terrorists to glorify violence? In The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy, Richard Drake seeks to explain the origins of Italian terrorism and the role that intellectuals played in valorizing the use of violence for... -
Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice by Jennifer Scappettone 9780231164320
RRP: €65.45€58.89As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an... -
The Broken Fountain by Thomas Belmonte 9780231133715
RRP: €35.70€27.72As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one of the most acclaimed ethnographies of recent years, offers vivid, literary descriptions of Fontana del Re, an... -
Neither Disobedients Nor Rebels: Lawful Resistance in Early Modern Italy by Angela de Benedictis 9788833130187
RRP: €82.11€76.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788833130187Author Angela de BenedictisFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 989g -
Lordships of Southern Italy: Rural Societies, Aristocratic Powers and Monarchy in the 12th and 13th Centuries by Sandro Carocci 9788867287734
RRP: €141.61€125.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867287734Author Sandro CarocciFormat HardbackPage Count 622Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 549g -
Ancient Rome: A New History by David Potter 9780500294123
RRP: €95.20€73.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500294123Author David PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 193mm... -
Urban Identities in Northern Italy, 800-1100 Ca. by Professor of Medieval History Cristina La Rocca 9782503565477
RRP: €104.72€102.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503565477Author Professor of Medieval History Cristina La RoccaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 839g -
The Age of Affirmation: Venice, the Adriatic and the Hinterland Between the 9th and 10th Centuries by Stefano Gasparri 9782503579252
RRP: €127.33€122.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503579252Author Stefano GasparriFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 7070g -
Fascist Europe: From Italian Supremacy to Subservience to the Reich (1932-1943) by Monica Fioravanzo 9781805392705
RRP: €117.81€95.76By shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of Fascism and Nazism, this book examines the ambitious plans for a new European order conceived by Italian intellectuals, historians, geographers, politicians, and even student representative of the... -
Tuscany -- Wandering the Back Roads, Volume 2 by Robert A. Sobieszek 9781888899146
RRP: €158.26€101.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888899146Author Robert A. SobieszekFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Lodima PressPublisher Lodima PressWeight(grams) 2325g -
Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968 by Wendy Pojmann 9780823245604
RRP: €41.65€36.58The women of the Socialist/Communist Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) and the lay Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF) are the protagonists in this keen study of the relationship between national Italian women's associations and international women's... -
The Birth of the Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte by Lucette Valensi 9780801475436
RRP: €29.74€25.79In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a... -
Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War by Richard N. Gardner 9780742539983
RRP: €54.74€48.49This compelling memoir of Richard N. Gardner's years as ambassador to Italy from 1977 to 1981 offers fascinating insights into the foreign policy of the Carter administration as well as into a critical turning point in Italy's history. This turbulent... -
Florentine Politics and Society, 1343-1378 by Gene A. Brucker 9780691651910
RRP: €178.50€139.84This book, analyzing the government of Florence during one of her most critical periods, and the forces that destroyed it, is the first study of the Florentine Trecento to use archival sources of the communal government systematically. Originally... -
Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy by Norberto Bobbio 9780691601465
RRP: €49.98€39.32Anyone interested in the entire sweep of political thought over the last hundred years will find in Norberto Bobbio's Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy a masterful, thought-provoking guide. Home to the largest communist party in a democratic...