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Popes against the Jews, the by David I. Kertzer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Mark Lynton History Prize 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780375706059Author David I. KertzerFormat... -
Ritual, Politics, and Power (Revised) by David I. Kertzer 9780300043624
Booksplease Price: £24.72In the most comprehensive study of political ritual yet written, David I. Kertzer explains why ritual has been and will continue to be an essential part of political life. Weaving together examples... -
Age Structuring in Comparative Perspective by David I. Kertzer 9781138966314
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £41.81This volume studies age as a basis for social organization by uniting research from the social science disciplines while implementing both cross-cultural and historical perspectives. The... -
Anthropological Demography: Toward a New Synthesis David I. Kertzer 9780226431963
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.25In its early years anthropology often used demographic research, but the two disciplines have recently grown to distrust each other's assumptions and methods. In order to show that they have much to... -
The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present by David I. Kertzer 9780300055504
Booksplease Price: £28.91How have family relations been regulated through the ages by state institutions and laws? What impact did the advent of Christianity have on marriage? Were parents in the past less emotionally... -
Politics and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism by David I. Kertzer 9780300077247
Booksplease Price: £19.17In the wake of the fall of the Berlin wall, and with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsing, Italian Communist Party (PCI) head Achille Occhetto shocked his party in 1989 by insisting... -
Family Life in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1913 by David I. Kertzer 9780300194845
Booksplease Price: £38.79The history of the family lies at the heart of the 'new social history' which has, over recent years, shifted the historiographical focus from political history and elites to the changing life... -
Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses by David I. Kertzer 9780521004275
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.98The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Language in National Censuses examines the ways that states have attempted to pigeon-hole the people within their boundaries into racial, ethnic, and language... -
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer 9780192890733
RRP: £31.49Booksplease Price: £21.94Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to respond to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Nazi domination of Europe. The Pope at War is the third... -
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer 9780812989960
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780812989960Author David I... -
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe by David I. Kertzer
RRP: £31.49Booksplease Price: £22.34Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The wave of revolution that had swept... -
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by Professor David I Kertzer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983678Author David I. KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House Trade... -
Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes, the Kings, and Garibaldi's Rebels in the Struggle to Rule Modern Italy by Professor David I Kertzer 9780618619191
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618619191Author Professor David I KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Mariner... -
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer 9780198716167 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £5.21This is 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... -
The Rites of Passage, Second Edition by Arnold Van Gennep
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £23.03Folklorist Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English... -
Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman 9780521145947
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £29.03The Jews of Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 brings to light the Italian-Jewish experience from the start of Mussolini's prime ministership through the end of the Second World War... -
Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond Stanley Brandes 9781405152488
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.41"Erudite and charming, Brandes' book provides a welcome antidote to previous studies of Day of the Dead 'morbidity,' segueing seamlessly from the Mexican festivities to Mexican Americans in... -
Fumo: Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette by Carl David Ipsen
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.84For over a century, Italy has had a love affair with the cigarette. Perhaps no consumer item better symbolizes the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of contemporary Italian history... -
Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front by Charles Gallagher 9780674293878
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.96Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award"A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation...This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning."-Boston Globe"The rare book by... -
Criminal Man by Mary Gibson 9780822337232
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.97Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late... -
Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice by Larry Wolff
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.66In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual relations with the 8-year-old daughter of an impoverished... -
The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini's Race Laws, 1938-1943 Michael A. Livingston 9781107027565
Booksplease Price: £120.00From 1938 until 1943 - before the German occupation and accompanying Holocaust - Fascist Italy drafted and enforced a comprehensive set of anti-Semitic laws. Notwithstanding later rationalizations,...